Puma Family History
Puma Name Meaning
Italian (Sicily): from Sicilian puma ‘apple’ a variant of standard Italian pomo presumably applied as topographic name a metonymic occupational name for a fruit grower or seller or a nickname for someone thought to resemble an apple in some way. Compare La Puma and Li Puma . Amerindian (Peru Bolivia and Ecuador) and possibly also Hispanic: from Quechuan puma ‘puma’ the name of a species of a large cat known in English (also) as mountain lion or cougar.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022