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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name for someone from Colmore in Hampshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Colemere, from Old English cōl ‘cool’ + mere ‘pool’, ‘pond’.
  • Altered spelling of German Kollmer, an Alsatian habitational name for someone from Colmar (formerly written Kolmar), or of Gollmer, a habitational name for someone from any of various places named Golm or Golme.

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