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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name, perhaps for a dairy farmer, from Middle High German rom ‘cream’, or for a frame or loom-maker, from Middle High German ram(e) ‘frame’, ‘loom’.
  • Possibly and altered spelling of German Römer (see Roemer).

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