Bloem (name)

Bloem (Dutch pronunciation: [blum]) is a Dutch name, meaning "flower" as well as "flour". As a feminine given name, also rendered Bloeme, it signifies flower, youth, and beauty.[1] The surname can have a variety of origins; besides a matronymic, the surname can have originated as descriptive (e.g. finest) or metonymic occupational (gardener, miller, baker).[2] The variants Bloeme and Bloemen are thought to be primarily matronymic.[3] People with the name include:

Given name

Surname

Bloem

  • Adriaen Bloem or Adriaen van Bloemen (1639–c.1697), Flemish painter active in Austria
  • An Bloem, eponymous character from the 1983 Dutch movie
  • Arend Bloem (born 1947), Dutch sprint canoer
  • J. C. Bloem (1887–1966), Dutch poet and essayist, grandson of Jacobus Cornelis Bloem
  • Jacobus Cornelis Bloem (1825–1902), Dutch politician, Minister of Finances 1885–88
  • Jamie Bloem (born 1971), Australian rugby player and referee
  • Marion Bloem (born 1952), Dutch writer and film maker
  • Walter Bloem (1868–1951), German novelist and soldier
  • Walter Julius Bloem (1898–1945), German writer and soldier, son of the above

Bloemen

Three brothers Van Bloemen:

See also
  • Blom (surname), Dutch surname of the same origin
  • Bloom (surname), English surname of the same origin
  • Blum (disambiguation), German surname of the same origin

References
  1. Bloem at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands.
  2. Bloem at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
  3. Bloemen at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
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