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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from a Limburg short form of the personal name Adam.
  • Dutch : from de oom ‘the uncle’, probably used as an epithet to distinguish between two members of the same family with the same personal name.
  • Americanized spelling of German Dumm or Thum, from a pet form of Thomas.

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