Frequency: (313)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: 1. probably a variant of Gehm, from an old personal name based on Old High German gam ‘joy’, ‘play’. 2. variant of Köhm, a Low German variant of Kümmel (see Kimmel).
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