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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German bluom ‘flower’, hence an occupational name for a flower gardener or a florist.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Blume, Yiddish blum ‘flower’.
  • Swedish : variant of Blom 1.

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