Allum Family History
Allum Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places: Alham in
Somerset, which is named for the Alham river on which it stands (a
Celtic river name of uncertain meaning), or Alnham in Northumberland,
named for the Aln river on which it stands (also of Celtic origin but
uncertain meaning), or a regional name from Hallamshire, the district
around Sheffield in South Yorkshire, which is named with Old Norse
hallr or Old English hall in a dative plural form,
hallum ‘(place at) the rocks’.Scottish: shortened
form of McCallum, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac
Coluim ‘son of Colum’.Norwegian: habitational name
from any of various farmsteads in southeastern Norway, probably named
from Old Norse Aldheimar, a compound of ald ‘high’ +
heimar ‘farm’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Allum Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Allum families
 7 - 11  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Allum families
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193 - 384 65 - 192 |
1 - 64 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Allum families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Allum Family Origin
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