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grum Name Meaning and History

  1. Probably respelling of German Grumm, a habitational name from Grumme, near Bocholt, apparently so named from Low German grum ‘dirt’, ‘mud’, or a topographic name for someone from a muddy place.
  2. Alternatively, it may be a respelling of German Krumm.
  3. Slovenian: unexplained.

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Distribution of grum Families in the US in 1840
Number of grum families
 3-4
 2-2
 1
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