as a Last Name
- 23,852
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Plummer
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. occupational name for a worker in lead, especially a maker of lead pipes and conduits, from Anglo-Norman French plom(m)er, plum(m)er ‘plumber’, from plom(b), plum(b) ‘lead’ (Latin plumbum). 2. variant of Plumer 1, 3. 3. occasionally, a habitational name from a minor place name, such as Plummers in Kimpton, Hertfordshire, which was named with Old English plum ‘plum(tree)’ + mere ‘pool’. The name is also established in Ireland, taken there from England in the 17th century.
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- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 23,852
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maine
- has the most people named Plummer per capita
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