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[Surname] Re: Where did the name originate and what does it mean?
Dumberth is German but I don't know the etymology.
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DUMBERTH seems to be a variant of DOMBERT. Förstemann lists DOMBERT (8th cent.) as one out of some 30 names starting with the Gothic element DOMS (Old High German TUOM), judgement, sentence, power, glory.
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