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Plam

One Pedersen was already too many.

In 1924, a Copenhagen typographer named Johannes Pedersen opened the telephone directory and found row after row of Pedersens — the inevitable consequence of Denmark’s 1856 law freezing patronymic surnames for all time. A man who worked with words and letters wasn’t about to be lost in the crowd. He went to court in Frederiksberg and chose a new family name starting with P — Plam — so his initials would remain intact. He and his wife Ingeborg raised three sons — Børge, Gunner, and Arne — who carried the name into the second half of the twentieth century. Arne eventually brought it across the Atlantic. A name invented by one man, now carried across generations and borders.