Croom Family History
Croom Name Meaning
English: nickname for a cripple or hunchback, from Middle
English crom(p), Old English crumb ‘bent’, ‘crooked’,
‘stooping’. Compare Crump.English: metonymic occupational
name for a maker, seller, or user of hooks, from Middle English
crome, cromb ‘hook’, ‘crook’ (from Old English
crumb ‘bent’, reinforced by an Old French borrowing from a
Germanic cognate).English: habitational name from Croom in East
Yorkshire or Croome in Worcestershire. The first is named with Old
English crohum, dative plural (used originally after a
preposition) of croh ‘narrow valley’ (a cognate of Old Norse
krá ‘corner’, ‘bend’, and related to the words mentioned in
1 and 2 above). The place in Worcestershire is named with an old
British river name ultimately cognate with the other words mentioned
here; compare Welsh crwm ‘crooked’, ‘winding’.Americanized spelling of German Krumm.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Croom Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Croom families
 69 - 136  24 - 68 |
 1 - 23  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Croom families
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26 - 49 9 - 25 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Croom families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Croom Family Origin
Croom Immigration Information
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Croom Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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