Given name & surname

Kalmar

Kalmar is a surname from Hungarian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Kalmar comes from Hungarian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Hungarian Kalmár.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Kalmar’s family of names

In Swedish usage, Kalmar has a later derivative in KALMARI.

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The ring: across languages.

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Serbo-Croatian

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Polish

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Hungarian

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Polish

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Hungarian

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