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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic occupational name for a dealer in feathers, from Middle English, Old French plume ‘feather’ (Latin pluma).
  • English and North German : variant of Plum.
  • Catalan (Plumé) : variant of plomer, occupational name for a worker in lead, from a derivative of plom ‘lead’.

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