# Blum (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/blum/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from German.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 17,458 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,072 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 17,685 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.1% (17,262 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From the German surname, from Middle High German bluome (“flower”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Blum in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.2% |
| Two or more races | 1.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Blum in the United States, Austria, Brazil, Yugoslavia and Germany.

## People named Blum

- Jason Blum, American film producer (born 1969)
- Steve Blum, American voice actor (born 1960)
- Mark Blum, American actor (1950–2020)
- William Blum, American author and historian (1933–2018)
- Lenore Blum, American computer scientist and mathematician (1942-)
- Rod Blum, American politician
- Josef Blum, Association footballer and coach (1898-1956)
- Norma Blum, Brazilian actress
- Jonathon Blum, American ice hockey player
- Deborah Blum, American journalist
- Robert Frederick Blum, American artist (1857-1903)
- Emerik Blum, Bosnian Jewish businessman and politician

and 5 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Bloom, Blume, Blom, Bluhm, Blohm, Bellamy, Bolin, Bolen, Bowlin, Blaine, Boylan, Blain.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.