Orum Family History
Orum Name Meaning
Danish: habitational name from any of several places called
Órum, named as a compound of ór ‘gravel beach’ +
hem ‘dwelling’. This name is also found in Norway, of Danish
origin.English: variant of Orme 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Orum Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Orum families
 8 - 14  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Orum families
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16 - 30 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Orum census records
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Orum Family Origin
Orum Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Orum
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Orum Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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