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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a nickname or byname from Middle English gome, Old English guma ‘man’.
  • German : probably a variant of Gumme, from a Frisian personal name or a short form of a Germanic personal name such as Gundemar (gund ‘battle’ + mār, mēri ‘famous’).

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