Lum Family History
Lum Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lum
Name Distribution of Lum Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lum families
 146 - 289  49 - 145 |
 1 - 48  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Lum families
|
36 - 70 13 - 35 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lum families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lum Family Origin
Lum Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Lum
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Lum Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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