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groom Name Meaning and History

English (common in East Anglia): occupational name for a servant or a shepherd, from Middle English grom(e) ‘boy’, ‘servant’ (of uncertain origin), which in some places was specialized to mean ‘shepherd’.

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groom Family Facts

Distribution of groom Families in the US in 1920
Number of groom families
 45-87
 16-44
 1-15
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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