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sum Name Meaning and History

  1. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): ornamental occupational name from Polish sum ‘wels’, ‘sheatfish’, a species of catfish.
  2. Chinese : variant of Shum.
  3. Chinese : variant of Shen 1.
  4. Cambodian: unexplained.

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

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

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Distribution of sum Families in the US in 1920
Number of sum families
 12-22
 5-11		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 9 - Messages: 21
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SUM family summariefrance 0
Sadie Sum; Katherine Slezak Sum; Peter Sum angiedybas 5
Sum, Herman, Sum, Theisidor G. Hall 0
Reinfarth Reinfarth, Mario 1
SUM/Reinfarth/Oberst/NY City gloria hall 3
Ching Sum Linda Chase 0
Sum Family friedman-71 2
Jacob Sum Rosemarie Piekarczyk 1
SUM Barbara Graves 0
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