Lumley Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from Lumley a place in County Durham so named from Old English lum(m) ‘pool’ (see Lum ) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Lum Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Lumb in Lancashire. In some instances the name may be topographic for someone who lived by a pool Middle English lum(m). English: variant of Lamb . Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 林 (see Lin ) and 藍 (see Lan ) based on their Cantonese pronunciations.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Plumley, Durley, Dudley, Chumley, Hulley, Loxley, Bulley, Comley
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts