Bloem (name)
Bloem is a Dutch name, meaning "flower" as well as "flour". As a feminine given name, also rendered Bloeme, it signifies flower, youth, and beauty. The surname can have a variety of origins; besides a matronymic, the surname can have originated as descriptive or metonymic occupational. The variants Bloeme and Bloemen are thought to be primarily matronymic. People with the name include:
Given name
- Bloeme Evers-Emden, Dutch Jewish teacher and child psychologist
- Bloem de Ligny, Dutch singer/songwriter and visual artist
Surname
Bloem- Adriaen Bloem or Adriaen van Bloemen, Flemish painter active in Austria
- An Bloem, eponymous character from the 1983 Dutch movie
- Arend Bloem, Dutch sprint canoer
- J. C. Bloem, Dutch poet and essayist, grandson of Jacobus Cornelis Bloem
- Jacobus Cornelis Bloem, Dutch politician, Minister of Finances 1885–88
- Jamie Bloem, Australian rugby player and referee
- Marion Bloem, Dutch writer and film maker
- Nico Bloem, German politician
- Walter Bloem, German novelist and soldier
- Walter Julius Bloem, German writer and soldier, son of the above
- Adriaen van Bloemen or Adriaen Bloem, Flemish painter active in Austria
- Johannes Bloemen, Dutch swimmer
- Karin Bloemen, Dutch actress and singer
- Ted-Jan Bloemen, Dutch-Canadian speed skater
- Jan Frans van Bloemen, Flemish landscape painter active in Italy
- Norbert van Bloemen, Flemish painter active in Holland
- Pieter van Bloemen, Flemish landscape and animal painter
Places
- The nickname and shortened form of Bloemfontein, a city in South Africa