Origin of Family Name LUMB?

Question:

Origin of Family Name LUMB?

We have been living in india frm abt 9 generations and have Family Name LUMB but i have checked with all ancient Family names in Hindu History/Mythology. Only place i came to exact Match Was UK there they had same family name way back 14th century. Want to know frm where we have decended.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The English surname Lumb is a variant of Lomb (also written Loomb, Loom, Loomes, Lum), and it can derive either from a descriptive epithet meaning 'lamb', or from a placename meaning 'pool'.

As others have said above, there's no shortcut to actually tracing a name in your own family history, but I can conceive of several scenarios whereby a family in India could acquire a British surname. The most straightforward of these is that you have a British ancestor. Another is that an ancestor had some sort of close association with an Englishman named Lumb (such as a servant or ward). A third possibility is that your name is the result of an English-speaking clerk who was having trouble with the foreign names he was expected to record; when he heard something like 'lum', he decided to write something that he recognized as a "proper" surname.