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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and North German : from Middle English plum(b)e, Middle Low German plum(e) ‘plum’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a plum tree, or a metonymic occupational name for a fruit grower. Reaney and Wilson, however, derive the English name from Old French plomb ‘lead’ (Latin plumbum), regarding it as a metonymic occupational name for a plumber.
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Blum.
  • Americanized form of Pflum.

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