Lumb Surname

80,190th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 6,077 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
England
Highest density in:
Jersey

Lumb Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the lum,' from residence thereby, a North-English surname. 'Lum, a woody valley, a deep pool. North England' (Halliwell). The final 'b' is excrescent. There can be little doubt about the truth of this derivation, although I have no proofs; compare Lumby and Lumley, North English place-names.

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Lumb Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England3,3381:16,6922,420
United States8781:412,82335,884
Australia4741:56,9536,945
Canada3461:106,49011,455
India1701:4,512,149117,295
New Zealand1331:34,0485,884
Germany1201:670,87952,024
South Africa1101:492,52540,325
Scotland1081:49,5724,299
Kenya811:570,12227,144
Wales771:40,1893,923
France361:1,845,076161,051
United Arab Emirates331:277,64519,302
Northern Ireland251:73,8015,249
Austria231:370,23639,193
Taiwan141:1,674,62511,030
Jersey121:8,2671,718
Indonesia111:12,022,654410,938
Norway111:467,48139,375
Netherlands101:1,688,71881,846
Zimbabwe91:1,715,36084,476
Papua New Guinea81:1,019,215101,897
Denmark71:806,38843,211
Thailand51:14,127,669603,945
Singapore41:1,376,92628,409
Spain41:11,688,009116,470
Philippines31:33,746,074302,898
Japan31:42,614,76459,022
Ireland31:1,569,64617,286
China31:455,773,85521,925
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
Hong Kong21:3,667,74211,574
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
Sri Lanka11:20,808,56018,521
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048
Turkey11:77,821,422191,047
Nicaragua11:6,021,0908,768
Belize11:355,4743,977
Bahamas11:391,7512,737
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
Isle of Man11:85,8224,091
Gibraltar11:33,9541,660
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England2,8321:8,6071,299
Scotland21:1,871,60827,884
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1591:315,84124,783

Lumb (334) may also be a first name.

Lumb Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the lum,' from residence thereby, a North-English surname. 'Lum, a woody valley, a deep pool. North England' (Halliwell). The final 'b' is excrescent. There can be little doubt about the truth of this derivation, although I have no proofs; compare Lumby and Lumley, North English place-names.

1750. Married — Beaumont Bellamy and Elizabeth Lum: St. George's Chapel, Mayfair.

1671. Baptised — Richard, s. Francis Lumley: St. James, Clerkenwell.

1703. Married — Stephen Anderson and Anne Lumley: St. Michael, Cornhill.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(Teutonic) 1 Dweller by (a) a Deep Pool; (b) a Wooded Bottom or Valley [N. Dialectal English lum, lumb: the clue to the etymol. seems to be given by the definition in the ‘Gloss. Dialectal Lonsdale’ (p.53)—‘a deep still pool overshadowed with trees’; prob. from the stem seen in Dutch lommer, shade, and therefore conn. with English loom, ‘a looming shadow or reflection’: cp. Swedish lummig, bushy, leafy, umbrageous] 2 for Lomb, Lamb, q.v.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

(Irish) Dweller at, or near, a deep pool or wooded valley; descendant of Lump, a pet form of Lambert (land, bright).

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

A location name in Lancashire, Yorkshire.

British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber

Lumb Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Lumb Come From? nationality or country of origin

Lumb (Hindi: लूम्ब, Marathi: लुंब) has its highest incidence in England. It can be rendered as:. Click here for other possible spellings of Lumb.

How Common Is The Last Name Lumb? popularity and diffusion

Lumb is the 80,190th most widespread surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 1,199,201 people. This last name is mostly found in Europe, where 62 percent of Lumb reside; 59 percent reside in Northern Europe and 59 percent reside in British Isles. Lumb is also the 478,963rd most frequent first name throughout the world, held by 334 people.

This last name is most commonly used in England, where it is borne by 3,338 people, or 1 in 16,692. In England it is primarily concentrated in: West Yorkshire, where 41 percent reside, Greater London, where 6 percent reside and Lancashire, where 6 percent reside. Barring England this last name occurs in 44 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 14 percent reside and Australia, where 8 percent reside.

Lumb Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Lumb has changed through the years. In England the number of people who held the Lumb last name grew 118 percent between 1881 and 2014; in The United States it grew 552 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in Scotland it grew 5,400 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Lumb Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Lumb surname are 2.5% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 50.73% registered to vote for the party.

The amount Lumb earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 79.75% more than the national average, earning 622,066 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 23.31% more than the national average, earning R 293,040 per year; in United States they earn 6.88% more than the national average, earning $46,116 USD per year and in Canada they earn 18.99% more than the national average, earning $59,120 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Laumb89183/
Luimb899/
Lumbh892/
Lumbė891/
Lumbì891/
Loumb891/
Lumbs890/
Laumbh805/
Limb753,263/
Lomb75543/
Lump75370/
Lunb7511/
Lumw751/
Lumbova7380/
Lumbowa7341/
Lumbsch738/
Lumpp671,747/
Lumpe671,058/
Hlomb6737/
Loump6725/
Loomb6724/
Lummp678/
Loemb673/
Lumps671/
Lyumbova671/
Lumpf671/
Liemb671/
Limmb671/
Loumf671/
Lumph671/
Limbh671/

Lumb Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Lumb in the Marathi language
लुंबlumba-
Lumb in the Hindi language
लूम्बlumba60.3
लुम्बlumba38.69
लुंबlumba1.01

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