Baum

Last updated

Baum is a German surname meaning "tree" (not to be confused with the French surname Baume). Notable people with this surname include:

See also

WPanthroponymy.svg
This page lists people with the surname Baum.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.

Related Research Articles

Bernstein is a common surname of German origin, meaning "amber". The name is used by both Germans and Jews, although it is most common among people of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. The German pronunciation is, but in English, it is pronounced either as or.

Heine is both a surname and a given name of German origin. People with that name include:

Berger is a surname in both German and French, although there is no etymological connection between the names in the two languages. The French surname is an occupational name for a shepherd, from Old French bergier. The German surname derives from the word Berg, the word for "mountain" or "hill", and means "a resident on a mountain or hill", or someone from a toponym Berg, derived from the same. The pronunciation of the English name may sometimes be BUR-jər following the French phonetics French pronunciation:[bɛʁ.ʒe]. Notable people with this surname include:

Maurer is a German surname, translating in English to "bricklayer" or "wall builder." Notable people with the surname include:

König is the German word for "king". In German and other languages applying the umlaut, the transliterations Koenig and Kœnig, when referring to a surname, also occur. As a surname in English, the use of Koenig is usual, and sometimes also Konig. Notable people with the name include:

Friedländer is a toponymic surname derived from any of German places named Friedland.

Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include:

Braun is a surname, originating from the German word for the color brown.

Vogel and De Vogel are surnames originating in German and Dutch-speaking countries. An alternate spelling is Fogel. Vogel is the German and Dutch word for "bird". Equivalent surnames are Bird or Byrd in English or L'Oiseau in French. Notable people with the surname include:

Nussbaum is a surname of German origin. Variant spellings include Nußbaum and Nusbaum. The word means "one who dwells near trees", likely referring to hazelnut trees or walnut trees.

Weiss or Weiß, also written Weis or Weisz, pronounced like "vice", is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname, meaning 'white' in both German and Yiddish. It comes from Middle High German wîz and Old High German (h)wīz.

Winkler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Roth is an English, German, or Jewish origin surname. There are seven theories on its origin:

  1. The spilling of blood from the warrior class of ancient Germanic soldiers;
  2. Ethnic name for an Anglo-Saxon, derived from rot, referencing red-haired people;
  3. Topographical name, derived from rod, meaning a dweller in such a location;
  4. Derivative from hroth ;
  5. Local name for 18th-century Ashkenazi refugees to Germany;
  6. Derivative from roe in the ancient Danish language to signify (of) a king;
  7. Of the red colour of clay, as in pottery (German).

Fuchs is a surname; it has as variants Fux, Fuhs and Fuchß. Notable persons bearing it include the following:

Mayer is a common German surname and less frequent as a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Burger is a West Germanic surname. It is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for 'freeman' or 'citizen' and the surname is equivalent to the English surname Burgess. In Dutch and German speaking countries it may be a toponymic surname, indicating origin from any of a number of towns ending in -burg. Notable people with the surname include:

Birnbaum is a German-language family name common among Ashkenazi Jews. Notable people with the surname include:

Hahn is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Burchard are both Germanic given names and surnames, from Burg "castle" and hart "hard". Notable people with the name include:

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.