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.