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.