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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German (Blümel) : from a diminutive of Middle High German bluome ‘flower’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a gardener or florist, or in some cases possibly denoting someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a flower.

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