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drum Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Droma ‘descendant of Droma’, a personal name, which may be from druim ‘back’, ‘ridge’ and have been given originally to someone with a deformed back.
  2. Scottish: habitational name from a place and castle in Aberdeenshire named from Gaelic druim ‘ridge’.
  3. German: nickname from Middle Low German drum, Middle High German trum ‘woodblock’, ‘uncouth person’.

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

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Distribution of drum Families in the US in 1920
Number of drum families
 62-122
 21-61		 1-20
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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