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Updated January 23, 2020

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : ornamental occupational name from Polish sum ‘wels’, ‘sheatfish’, a species of catfish.
  • Chinese : variant of Shum.
  • Chinese : variant of Shen 1.
  • Cambodian : unexplained.

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