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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (from Belarus) : unexplained.
  • German : respelling of Kumm, a topographic name for someone who lived in a dale.
  • German : of uncertain origin. Possibly a habitational name from Commen on the Mosel river or from Kommen in East Prussia; or a topographic name from Slovenian kom ‘hill’, ‘peak’.

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