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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : A diamond

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish and Portuguese : from the plural of alma ‘soul’.
  • Hungarian (Almás) : from alma ‘apple’, hence an occupational name for a producer or seller of apples. Probably also a topographic name for someone who lived by an apple orchard.

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