as a Last Name
- 8,405
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Lum
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from places in Lancashire and West Yorkshire called Lumb, both apparently originally named with Old English lum(m) ‘pool’. The word is not independently attested, but appears also in Lomax and Lumley, and may be reflected in the dialect term lum denoting a well for collecting water in a mine. In some instances the name may be topographical for someone who lived by a pool, Middle English lum(m).
| 4,274th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,405
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Lum per capita
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