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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (mainly Tuscany and northern Italy) and Spanish : from olmo ‘elm’, Latin ulmus, topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous elm tree, or a habitational name from a place named Olmo, from the same word.

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