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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Pump, metonymic occupational name for a pump maker.
  • German : possibly also a variant of Bump (see Bump).
  • Indian (Maharashtra) : Hindu (Maratha) name, from Marathi bəmb ‘stout’.

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