Nusbaum Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Seen on a birth certificate or a ship's manifest, Nusbaum is usually a form of Nussbaum. Its meaning, shared with Nussbaum, is “Walnut tree”. Nusbaum drops the “s” of Nussbaum, a simplification that clerks often made. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. You may also find the name written Nussbaumer.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Nusbaum surname had 2,716 bearers. INSEE counts 338 people born in France with the Nusbaum surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1951–1960.

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