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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Czech, German, Estonian, Jewish (Ashkenazic), and Luxembourgeois :
  • metonymic occupational name for a herbalist, from kalmus ‘calamus’, a plant with medicinal properties, a kind of reed or cane.
  • from the personal name Kalmus, related to Kalman.

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