Frum

A surname from Yiddish.

Proper noun

  1. A surname from Yiddish.

Origin

* As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish פֿרום (frum, “religious, pious, observant”) * As a German surname, spelling variant of Fromm.

Forms

Frums From Fromm Fromme

Proper noun Entry 2

  1. A surname from Yiddish [in turn originating as a patronymic], having a father Afrom (“Abraham, Abram”)

Origin

From Yiddish אברם (afrom), from Hebrew אברם from אברהם. Doublet of Abram.

Forms

From Fromm Fromme