Drum

Meaning

Proper Noun

• settlement (Mains of Drum) in Aberdeenshire (council area) Scotland (constituent country) near {{w Drum Castle}} .
• mountain Conwy (county borough) Wales (constituent country) .
• village Monaghan (county) Ireland (country).
• civil parish/and/townland Roscommon (county) Ireland (country).
• (unincorporated) community Bollinger County (county) Missouri (state) USA (state), named after the Drum family.

Origin

• As an Irish surname, from Droma, a personal name from druim
• As a Scottish Gaelic surname, from druim
• As a German surname, from Middle High German trum and Middle Low German drum ("woodblock"), both probably from Proto-Germanic *trumaz.