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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.

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Distribution of sum Families in the US in 1920
Number of sum families
 12-22
 5-11
 1-4
 0
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