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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from an agent derivative of (sluit)boom, ‘sluice gate’, hence an occupational name for a man who operated such a gate on a waterway.
  • North German : variant of Bäumer (see Baumer 2).

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