Dahlem

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Dahlem.

Proper noun

Dahlem (countable and uncountable, plural Dahlems)

1. A district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Dahlem is the 35812^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 627 individuals. Dahlem is most common among White (97.13%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dahlem”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 403.

Anagrams

• lamedh

German

Etymology

• The Rhenish and Lower Saxon places are equivalent to Tal (“valley”) + Heim (“home, place”), with unshifted D- from the local Central Franconian and Low German dialects and reduction of the second component to -em.
• The quarter of Berlin is first attested as Dalm (13th c.) and might therefore have a different origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaːləm/

• Aufio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Dah‧lem

Proper noun

Dahlem n (proper noun, genitive Dahlems or (optionally with an article) Dahlem)

1. A district of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2. A village in Eifel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
3. A village in Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
4. A village in Lower Saxony, Germany

Proper noun

Dahlem m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Dahlems or (with an article) Dahlem, plural Dahlems or Dahlem)

1. a surname