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See the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary under this listing and/or Pumpian, Pompion, and similar variant spellings. It seems to have been a Middle French collective term for melons, pumpkins, etc., and came into English in the 1600s (as I recall) meaning magniloquent, grandiloquent, and fat-headed.
There is a small village now named Pumpenai in Lithuania; its former name (Yiddish) was Pompian. It may have been established in the 1700s, possibly earlier. The name also is associated with a Roman governor who martyred St. Sebastian, with another martyr (Eastern Church), and with a pirate from St. Malo, France, who was caught off the Virginia coast in 1700, tried, and presumably hanged (but there is no documentation of the results of the trial).
The name is and has been spelled Pumpian because there are no vowels in Hebrew/Yiddish, and I personally know of two sets of brothers, one of whom spells the name with an "o" and the other brother with a "u".
Although there are perhaps a 100 or more Pompians and Pumpians in the US, I can find links to none save about a dozen -- from my grandfathers (who were related) to a couple of cousins and their children.
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--Richard Pompian (Ph.D.)
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