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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Probably an Americanized spelling of German Kalkert: occupational name for a lime burner, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kalc (see Kalkbrenner).
  2. Probably an Americanized spelling of German Kalkert: habitational name for someone from Kalke in Brandenburg or Kalkar in Cleve.