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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a feather dealer, from Middle Low German vlūm ‘down’, ‘feather’.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Pflaume ‘plum’.

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