Last name origins & meanings:
- Swedish (Almén): topographic or ornamental name from
alm ‘elm’ + the common surname suffix -én, a
derivative of Latin -enius ‘descendant of’.
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of various farmsteads named
Almen (‘the elm’).
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): status name from
Yiddish almen ‘widower’.
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