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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : of uncertain origin. Bardsley believes it to be from the medieval female personal name Pymme, Pimme, vernacular short forms of Euphemia, which was popular in England in the Middle Ages. Reaney and Wilson, however, suggest that it is from a male name, presumably the Old English Pymma.

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