Last name origins & meanings:
- French: habitational name from any of various places called
Chalm, often recorded as La Champ, in Ardèche, Drôme,
Haute-Loire, Isère, Lozère.
- Arabic: ethnic name for a Syrian or habitational name for someone from
Damascus, from al shām, Arabic name for Syria, used in Syria
itself to denote the city of Damascus.
- Chinese:
variant of Zhan. - Other Southeast Asian: unexplained.
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