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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from places near Mainz or in Lower Saxony (near Lüneburg), so named from an old element, ulm ‘mud’. In some instances the surname may be topographic.
  • Dutch and Catalan : topographic name from Dutch and Old Catalan olm ‘elm’, from Latin ulmus.

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