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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : variant of Rome.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : acronymic name of uncertain derivation.
  • German : from a place name in Pomerania.
  • German : ethnic name or epithet for someone who had a connection with Rome (see Roman).

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