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English: variant of Loomis.

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> Lomis
English: habitational name from a lost place near Bury in Lancashire, recorded in the Middle Ages as Lumhalghs, and apparently named with the Old English elements lumm ‘pool’ + halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’.

(Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press)
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