Is Calmen a first name or a last name? I know it's a woman and that's all the in

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Is Calmen a first name or a last name? I know it's a woman and that's all the info I have and I can get. Thank

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Calmen is both a first name a surname. It is also spelled Kalmen. Here is a link to the Calmens in the Social Security Death index

http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-b...

Put Calmen in the surname box and you will see that there were a few of them whose numbers were issued in Maryland. Next, take Calmen out of the surname box and put Calmen in the first name box. You will get 6 hits.

Furthermore, here is a link to the Rootsweb Worldconnect trees. You will see that there are 88 entries of people with the last name Calmen.
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin...

I have never known anyone with Calmen as a first name, but I suspect that people who use it as a firstname probably have an ancestor with that surname. Many first names have come about by first originating as a surname (i.e Madison, Taylor, Kelly etc)