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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by a pear tree, from Middle High German bir ‘pear’ + boum ‘tree’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Birnbaum ‘pear tree’, applied mainly as an ornamental name, possibly occasionally as a topographic name.

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