The story
- Old English · derived fromlumm“pool”
- English todayLumley
Habitational surname from the villages of Great Lumley and Lumley Thicks, in County Durham, from Old English lumm (“pool”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishlumm all →
lum
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.