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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Origin uncertain. : Origin uncertain. It is probably a variant of English Rumbelow, itself of uncertain origin; most likely a habitational name from a place in Aston, Birmingham, called the Rumbelow, from a misdivision of the Old English locative phrase æt þæm þreowān hlāwum ‘at the three hills’. The Old English word hlāw meant ‘small hill’ or ‘tumulus’.
  • Origin uncertain. : Alternatively, it may be an Americanized form of the German habitational name Brummerloh, from a place so named near Varel, Lower Saxony.

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