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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Rümmler) : nickname for a noisy person, from a noun derivative of Middle High German rumpeln, rummeln ‘to crash about’, ‘to make a noise’.
  • German (also Rümmler) : in some cases, a patronymic from a personal name from Old High German ruom ‘renown’, ‘glory’.

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