Thum Family History
Thum Name Meaning
English (mainly Hampshire): nickname from Middle English thum thoumb ‘thumb’ for someone with a missing or deformed thumb or for someone of very small size. Compare the folk tale of ‘Tom Thumb’. This surname is rare in Britain and Ireland. German: from a short form (of Slavic origin) of the personal name Thomas . German: habitational name from any of the places called Thum in Rhineland and Saxony or Thumen in Bavaria or a topographic name from Middle High German tuom ‘episcopal church’ (Dom). Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 譚 based on its Cantonese pronunciation see Tan Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 覃 see Tan 2 or Qin
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022