Baume Family History
Baume Name Meaning
see Baum . from Baume-les-Dames or Baume-les-Moines (now Baume-les-Messieurs) in Doubs and Jura France respectively. The place-name may be from a pre-Latin term balma ‘cave’ or (in E France) ‘mound hillock’.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016