Shumate Family History
Shumate Name Meaning
Americanized form of French de la Chaumette: topographic name for someone who lived on a chaumette a high arid plateau with very little vegetation derived from a diminutive of chaume ‘bare land’ (from a specialized sense of Latin calmus ‘calm unruffled’); or a habitational name from La Chaumette the name of several places in the central part of France. The surname Shumate is also found among African Americans. See also Delashmutt compare Shoemake 1 and Shoemate .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022