Family name origins & meanings
- North German (Plümer) and English : variant of Plum, the suffix -er denoting habitation or occupation.
- Altered form of South German Pflümer, an occupational name for a grower or seller of plums, from an agent derivative of Middle High German pflūme ‘plum’.
- English : variant of Plummer 1.
- English and Dutch : occupational name for a dealer in feathers and quills, from an agent derivative of Middle English plume, Middle Dutch pluim ‘feather’, ‘plume’.