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boom Name Meaning and History

Dutch and North German: from Middle Dutch boom, Middle Low German bom ‘tree’, hence a nickname for a particularly tall person or a topographic name for someone who lived by a tree that was particularly conspicuous.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of boom Families in the US in 1920
Number of boom families
 20-37
 7-19
 1-6
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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