Lum

Where Lum comes from

Clipping of Columbus.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lum
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #600 among boys — 10 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #450
    17 babies named Lum — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #765.
  4. 1990
    Lum Zhaveli born
    Kosovan Olympic swimmer
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Columbus.
Namesakes
  • Lum Zhaveli · Kosovan Olympic swimmer, born 1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.