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boomer Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch: from an agent derivative of (sluit)boom, ‘sluice gate’, hence an occupational name for a man who operated such a gate on a waterway.
  2. North German: variant of Bäumer (see Baumer 2).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of boomer Families in the US in 1920
Number of boomer families
 37-71
 13-36
 1-12
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