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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from the personal name Adelmar, composed of the Germanic elements adal ‘noble’ + mar ‘famous’.
  • Swedish (Almér) : topographic or ornamental name from alm ‘elm’ + the common surname element -ér, a shortened form of Latin -erus ‘descendant of’.

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