Bum Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 2
Cumberland 2
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 5
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 6
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 2
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Bum Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Bum family

Profession Census Frequency
Farmer 1
Clerk 1
Independent 1
Butcher 1
Pensioner 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Bum

Name Census Frequency
John Bum 15
William Bum 13
Elizabeth Bum 10
Thomas Bum 8
Edward Bum 6
George Bum 6
Mary Bum 6
Sarah Bum 5
Eliza Bum 4
Frederick Bum 4
James Bum 4
Jane Bum 4
Margaret Bum 4
Robert Bum 4
Charles Bum 3
Ada Bum 2
Alfred Bum 2
Andrew Bum 2
Ann Bum 2
David Bum 2
Edwin Bum 2
Ellen Bum 2
Emma Bum 2
Hannah Bum 2
Harriett Bum 2

Bum Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Boam 50% 2,774
2 Baum 75% 2,363
3 Boom 50% 1,076
4 Beam 50% 409
5 Baume 60% 395
6 Boome 40% 369
7 Bum 100% 168
8 Bam 67% 111

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The surname Bum is the 7th most popular variant of Boam.

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