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The broom Surname

broom Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places called Broom(e) or Brome, from Old English brom ‘broom’, ‘gorse’. There are such places in Bedfordshire, County Durham, Norfolk, Shropshire, Suffolk, Worcestershire, and elsewhere.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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broom Family Facts

Distribution of broom Families in the US in 1920
Number of broom families
 68-134
 23-67		 1-22
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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