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{{otheruses|KELM (disambiguation)}}
{{Wiktionary|Kelm|Chelm|kelm}}
'''Kelm''' is either a [[German language]] [[topographic]] or a [[habitational surname]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://forebears.io/surnames/kelm |title=Kelm Surname |accessdate=2020-11-10 |work=forebears.io |quote=Approximately 14,363 people bear this surname. Most prevalent in: Germany; Highest density in: Germany.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=kelm |title=Kelm Name Meaning |accessdate=2020-11-10 |work=ancestry.com |quote= Germanized form of Polish Chelm ‘peak’, ‘hill’, a topographic name for someone who lived by a hill with a pointed summit, or habitational name from a city in eastern Poland or any of various other places named with this word.}}</ref> in the first case denoting a person who lived near a hill ([[Old Church Slavonic|Old Slavic]] ''cholm'' "peak", "hill") or in the second case someone who came from [[Chełm]] in eastern Poland or from any of several similar named smaller settlement. Notable people with the surname include:
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