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bloom Name Meaning and History

  1. Jewish (American): Americanized spelling of Blum.
  2. Americanized spelling of Dutch Bloem.
  3. Swedish: variant of Blom.
  4. English: metonymic occupational name for an iron worker, from Middle English blome ‘ingot (of iron)’. The modern English word bloom ‘flower’ came into English from Old Norse in the 13th century, but probably did not give rise to any surnames.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The bloom name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the bloom family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of bloom Families in the US in 1920
Number of bloom families
 456-909
 153-455		 1-152
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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