Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): ornamental occupational name from
Polish sum ‘wels’, ‘sheatfish’, a species of catfish.Chinese : variant of Shum.Chinese
: variant of Shen 1.Cambodian:
unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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