First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Dutch and North German (in the Lower Rhine area): from Dutch bloem, Middle Low German blōm ‘flower’, possibly applied as a nickname, an ornamental name, or a metonymic occupational name for a gardener or florist.