Suman Family History
Suman Name Meaning
Italian (northern): unexplained. Croatian Serbian and Bosniak (Šuman): topographic name for someone who lived in a wood derived from Croatian Serbian and Bosnian šuma ‘wood forest’. Compare Shuman . Croatian: altered form under Italian or Hungarian influence of Šuman (see 2 above and 4 below) or perhaps a nickname derived from the root of sumnjati ‘doubt suspicion’. Slovenian Croatian Czech and Slovak (Šuman): occupational name for a shoemaker from German Schumann . Compare Shuman . Czech and Slovak (Šuman): nickname derived from šum ‘noise rustle’ (see Sum ). Compare Shuman . Indian and Bangladeshi: from a personal name based on a Sanskrit word meaning ‘flower’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022