He was previously known as Sméagol.
Gandalf on Gollum's origins:
"I guess they were of hobbit-kind, akin to the fathers of the fathers of the Stoors."
These people split from the Stoors of the Shire and settled along the Gladden River where his bud Déagol found the One Ring some 2000+ years after Isildur encountered his fate.
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