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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : vernacular form of the personal name Roman.
  • North German (Rühmann) : from a reduced form of Rüdemann, from Rüde (see Rude 1); generally it may be from any of the compound personal names containing the Old High German element hrōd ‘renown’, for example Ruombald, Rumold.

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