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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Schwamm ‘sponge’ or ‘mushroom’.
  • Variant of German Schwamm, a metonymic occupational name for a gatherer of edible fungi (see Schwamb).

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