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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Spanish and Portuguese: from the plural of alma ‘soul’.
  2. Hungarian (Almás): from alma ‘apple’, hence an occupational name for a producer or seller of apples. Probably also a topographic name for someone who lived by an apple orchard.

This name appears in the following lists: Jewels, Gems, and Minerals