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Type Surname (from location)
Usage German
Other Forms FormsChelm

Meaning & History

Germanized form of Polish Chelm ‘peak’, ‘hill’, a topographic name for someone who lived by a hill with a pointed summit, or habitational name from a city in eastern Poland or any of various other places named with this word.
Added 12/22/2017 by LMS