Sum Family History
Sum Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Sum Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sum families
 12 - 22  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sum families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sum families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sum census records
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Sum Family Origin
Sum Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Sum
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Sum Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Sum census records
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