English: from a nickname or byname from Middle English
gome, Old English guma ‘man’.German:
probably a variant of Gumme, from a Frisian personal name or a
short form of a Germanic personal name such as Gundemar
(gund ‘battle’ + mar, meri ‘famous’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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