Gaumer

From the German Gaumer, which referred to an individual who functioned as a moral censor or supervisor in an official capacity. The German surname is a derivative of German gaumen—which is now a term limited to Switzerland—meaning "to protect, to defend," with a secondary meaning of "to care for".

gaumen comes from German goumen, which comes from German goumen, which comes from Proto-Germanic *gaumijaną (“to heed, notice, observe, keep”). The verb is ultimately a cognate of the obsolete English verb yeme (“to observe, to pay attention”).

Gaumer (plural Gaumers)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Gaumer is the 27260^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 887 individuals. Gaumer is most common among White (94.81%) individuals.

• Mauger, mauger, maugre, murage