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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname. · A ghost town in Otero County, Colorado. · An unincorporated community and township in Ford County, Kansas. · A town in Richland County, Wisconsin.
English and Jewish surname converged from several origins: * Middle English blom (“ingot”), from Old English blōma (“lump of iron”) * Swedish Blom * Dutch Bloem, see bloem (“flower”) * Spelling variant of Blum
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