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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a lime burner, from Middle High German kalc ‘lime’ (a loanword from Latin calx), Middle Dutch calk. Lime is a white calcium oxide obtained by heating limestone (see Kalkbrenner).
  • German : of Slavic origin; unexplained.

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