English: habitational name from places in Lancashire and West
Yorkshire called Lumb, both apparently originally named with Old
English lum(m) ‘pool’. The word is not independently attested,
but appears also in Lomax and Lumley, and may be
reflected in the dialect term lum denoting a well for
collecting water in a mine. In some instances the name may be
topographical for someone who lived by a pool, Middle English
lum(m).English: variant of Lamb.Chinese : variant of Lin 1.Chinese
: possibly a variant of Lan.
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