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Plummer
How to Pronounce Plummer
Pronounced PLUM-er /ˈplʌm.ər/Medium
Meaning: Plummer is an English occupational surname for a worker in lead, a plumber in the old sense of one who fitted lead pipes and roofs, from the Latin plumbum meaning lead, later used as a given name.Medium
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.
History & Origin
Plummer is an occupational English surname, from the medieval worker in lead, ultimately from the Latin plumbum. Like many trade surnames it was adopted as a first name, appearing for American boys only rarely, around 1921.
It was never common as a given name, borne by only about twenty boys a year at most, and it had faded by the nineteen-sixties. A boy named Plummer then would be over a hundred today. It reads as an old surname-name rather than a current pick.
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What does the name Plummer mean?
It is an English occupational surname for a worker in lead, from the Latin plumbum.
How do you pronounce Plummer?
It is said PLUM-er /ˈplʌm.ər/, two syllables with the stress on the first.
Is Plummer a boy or girl name?
Plummer is used as a boys name.
How popular is Plummer?
It has always been rare as a first name, given to only about twenty boys a year at its peak in the nineteen-twenties.