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bumpus Name Meaning and History

English: nickname, of Norman origin, for someone who was a swift walker, from Old French bon ‘good’ + pas ‘pace’. It may also have been a topographic name, with the second element used in the sense ‘passageway’. Compare Malpass.

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

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

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Distribution of bumpus Families in the US in 1920
Number of bumpus families
 57-111
 20-56		 1-19
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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