Bloem (Dutch pronunciation: [blum]) is a Dutch name, meaning "flower" as well as "flour". As a feminine given name, also rendered Bloeme, it signifies flower, youth, and beauty.^[1] The surname can have a variety of origins; besides a matronymic, the surname can have originated as descriptive (e.g. finest) or metonymic occupational (gardener, miller, baker).^[2] The variants Bloeme and Bloemen are thought to be primarily matronymic.^[3] People with the name include:

• Bloeme Evers-Emden (1926–2016), Dutch Jewish teacher and child psychologist
• Bloem de Ligny (born 1978), Dutch singer/songwriter and visual artist

Bloem

• Adriaen Bloem or Adriaen van Bloemen (1639–c.1697), Flemish painter active in Austria
• An Bloem, eponymous character from the 1983 Dutch movie
• Arend Bloem (born 1947), Dutch sprint canoer
• J. C. Bloem (1887–1966), Dutch poet and essayist, grandson of Jacobus Cornelis Bloem
• Jacobus Cornelis Bloem (1825–1902), Dutch politician, Minister of Finances 1885–88
• Jamie Bloem (born 1971), Australian rugby player and referee
• Marion Bloem (born 1952), Dutch writer and film maker
• Walter Bloem (1868–1951), German novelist and soldier
• Walter Julius Bloem (1898–1945), German writer and soldier, son of the above

Bloemen

• Adriaen van Bloemen or Adriaen Bloem (1639–c.1697), Flemish painter active in Austria
• Johannes Bloemen (1864–1939), Dutch swimmer
• Karin Bloemen (born 1960), Dutch actress and singer
• Ted-Jan Bloemen (born 1986), Dutch-Canadian speed skater

Three brothers Van Bloemen:

• Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662–1749), Flemish landscape painter active in Italy
• Norbert van Bloemen (1670–1746), Flemish painter active in Holland
• Pieter van Bloemen (1657–1720), Flemish landscape and animal painter

• The nickname and shortened form of Bloemfontein, a city in South Africa

• Blom (surname), Dutch surname of the same origin
• Bloom (surname), English surname of the same origin
• Blum (disambiguation), German surname of the same origin