South German : vernacular form of the personal name
Roman.
North German (Rühmann) : from a reduced
form of Rüdemann, from Rüde (see Rude 1);
generally it may be from any of the compound personal names containing
the Old High German element hrōd ‘renown’, for example
Ruombald, Rumold.
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