Surname Bloomer/Blumer, meaning 'flower' - any ideas on the origins of this surname?

[TheSwedishFish]

My surname is Bloomer. There are multiple unrelated families with the surname Bloomer. I recall my mother stating that my surname meant 'flower'. I also recall she mentioned that the name was also spelled with a u (as Blumer), in Germany.

I've tried to look up family trees of my grandparents but it leaves me at a dead end.

[Hithaeglir]

This unusual and interesting surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a metonymic occupational name for a maker of blooms, an iron-worker, deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century "bloma" (Middle English "blome"), ingot of iron. Job-descriptive surnames originally denoted the actual occupation of the namebearer, and later became hereditary. The surname first appears on record in the latter part of the 12th Century (see below). In 1198, one Walter Blome was noted in the Pipe Rolls of London. Early examples of the name containing the agent suffix "-er(e)", denoting "one who does or works with" include: William Blomere (Derbyshire, 1202); Robert le Blomere (Staffordshire, 1279); and Johannes Blomere (Yorkshire, 1379). The modern English word "bloom", flower, came into English from the Old Norse "blom" in the 13th Century, but probably did not give rise to any surnames; however, the Ashkenazic ornamental name "Blum" from the Yiddish "blum", flower, is occasionally Anglicized Bloom. On July 12th 1582, Alyce Blome and Gabriell Kennett were married in Canterbury, Kent, and on July 24th 1691, Thomas, son of John Bloom, was christened at St. Botolph's, Colchester, Essex. A Coat of Arms granted to the Bloom family is an azure shield with a silver dexter hand couped at the wrist, the Crest being a cubit arm holding in the hand proper some slips of broom. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Anselm Blome, which was dated 1177, in the "Pipe Rolls of Sussex", during the reign of King Henry 11, known as "The Builder of Churches", 1154 - 1189. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

http://forebears.co.uk/surnames/bloomer

[TheSwedishFish]

My mother mentioned the name meant flower, not a maker of blooms. https://www.houseofnames.com/ gives several origins for the surname so I'm guessing there are several unrelated families associated with it.

[TheSwedishFish]

There's a Bloomer family that originated in England in the 12th Century, an Irish Bloomer family, and a Bloomer family that came from Germany to England in the 17th Century.

[Anglojew]

A genetic test (on 23andme) will not only give your a better idea of whether you're paternal ancestors were English or not but also put you in touch with other relatives who may have more specific information. My guess is (based on the little information you've given) it's an Anglo-Saxon name i.e. you descend from English people rather than more recent continental immigrants.

Then again my mother has a similar last name and we always assumed it was from a German immigrant to England but found out it's French, so who knows.

[TheSwedishFish]

I'm aware of there being an alternate spelling of Bloomer as Blumer, but I'm not sure if we're related to the Blumer family.

[TheSwedishFish]

A genetic test (on 23andme) will not only give your a better idea of whether you're paternal ancestors were English or not but also put you in touch with other relatives who may have more specific information. My guess is (based on the little information you've given) it's an Anglo-Saxon name i.e. you descend from English people rather than more recent continental immigrants.

Then again my mother has a similar last name and we always assumed it was from a German immigrant to England but found out it's French, so who knows.

Genetic tests are expensive.

[AverageKorhonen]

Genetic tests are expensive.

They use to be. It's not that expensive anymore. Are you unemployed or something?