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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a person who finished freshly woven cloth by passing it between heavy rollers to compress the weave. The English term for such a worker, calender, is from Old French calandrier, calandreur, from the verb calandrer.
  • Scottish : variant spelling of Callander.
  • Variant spelling of German Kalander (see Kolander).

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