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Americanized form of any of various Ashkenazi surnames derived from the Yiddish personal name חיים (khayem, “Chaim”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Americanized form of any of various Ashkenazi surnames derived from the Yiddish personal name חיים (khayem, “Chaim”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.