Lum (surname)

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Lum
Language(s) Middle English, Chinese (Cantonese and Hakka)
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Variant form(s)English: Lumb
Chinese: Lin, Lan, Lam

Lum is a surname.

Origins

As a Chinese surname, Lum may be an ad hoc spelling, based on the pronunciation in different varieties of Chinese, of the following surnames. Those surnames are listed below by their romanisation in Hanyu Pinyin, which reflects the standard Mandarin pronunciation: [1] [2]

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The English surname Lum is a variant spelling of Lumb, which originated either as a toponymic surname referring to Lumb in Lancashire, or from the Middle English word lum ("pool"). [1]

Statistics

Statistics compiled by Patrick Hanks on the basis of the 2011 United Kingdom census and the Census of Ireland 2011 found 190 people with the surname Lum on the island of Great Britain and one on the island of Ireland. In the 1881 United Kingdom census there were 76 bearers of the surname, primarily at West Yorkshire. [1] The 2010 United States census found 8,060 people with the surname Lum, making it the 4,406th-most-common surname in the country. This was roughly the same number of people as in the 2000 census (8,044 people; 4,042nd-most-common). In the 2010 census, roughly 17% of the bearers of the surname identified as non-Hispanic white, while the number identifying as Asian decreased from 68% in the 2000 census to 62% in the 2010 census. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 1640. ISBN   9780192527479.
  2. ↑ Louie, Emma Woo (1988). Chinese American Names: Tradition and Transition. McFarland. pp. 119, 186–187. ISBN   9780786438778.
  3. ↑ "How common is your last name? (Lum)". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
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