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baum Name Meaning and History

  1. German: topographic name for someone who lived by a tree that was particularly noticeable in some way, from Middle High German, Old High German boum ‘tree’, or else a nickname for a particularly tall person.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Baum ‘tree’, or a short form of any of the many ornamental surnames containing this word as the final element, for example Feigenbaum ‘fig tree’ (see Feige) and Mandelbaum ‘almond tree’ (see Mandel).
  3. English: probably a variant spelling of Balm, a metonymic occupational name for a seller of spices and perfumes, Middle English, Old French basme, balme, ba(u)me ‘balm’, ‘ointment’ (see Balmer).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of baum Families in the US in 1920
Number of baum families
 253-504
 85-252		 1-84
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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