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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : probably a nickname or topographic name in sentence form, ‘raum den Schlag ’ ‘clear the (tree-felling) area’, from Middle Low German rumen ‘to clear’, ‘leave’ + schlag (standardized) ‘cleared area’.

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