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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (also Öhm) : kinship name from Middle Low German ōm ‘maternal uncle’, ‘relative’, which was used as a respectful form of address for older people. Compare Neve.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from farmsteads on the west coast named Om or Åm, from Old Norse áum, dative plural of á ‘small river’.

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