as a Last Name
- 18,726
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Baum
Meaning & Origins
German: topographic name for someone who lived by a tree that was particularly noticeable in some way, from Middle High German, Old High German boum ‘tree’, or else a nickname for a particularly tall person.
| 1,959th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 18,726
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Utah
- has the most people named Baum per capita
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