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The ulmer Surname

ulmer Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name for someone from the city of Ulm. The placename is from the root uel, an unattested word meaning ‘turn’, ‘wind’, ‘roll’ or from el- or ol- ‘flow’, a reference in either case to the influx of the Blan river into the Danube.
  2. from the Germanic personal name Odolmar, composed of the elements odal ‘inherited property’ + mar ‘famous’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ulmer Families in the US in 1920
Number of ulmer families
 97-191
 33-96		 1-32
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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