Given name & surname
Sum
“noise”·“catfish”
Sum is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a Slovene and Czech surname Šum, it goes back to a word meaning “noise.” As a Jewish surname, it goes back to a word meaning “catfish.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Sum has more than one origin: as a Chinese surname:. * a pronunciation of 沈, it comes from Cantonese; as a Cambodian/Khmer surname, it comes from Chinese; as a Slovene and Czech surname Šum, it goes back to a word meaning “noise”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Sum’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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