Plume Family History
Plume Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name from Middle English plum(e) ‘feather decorative plume’ (Anglo-Norman French plum(e) Latin pluma) presumably used for one who worked with or sold feathers. English and North German: variant of Plum . French: metonymic occupational name for a seller of down and feathers from plume ‘feather’. Compare Laplume Catalan (Plumé): from a variant of plomer an occupational name for a worker in lead from a derivative of plom ‘lead’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022