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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (mostly Bäumler) : from an agent derivative of Baum 1, as a topographic name for someone who lived by a large or otherwise remarkable tree, or an occupational name for a tree warden, a specialist employed by a community to look after the trees, in particular fruit trees, from Middle High German boumen ‘to make tree plantings’.

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