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poorman Name Meaning and History

Possibly an altered spelling of German Porrmann, a variant of Porr, or Purrmann, from a variant of the personal name Burgman, from Old High German burg ‘castle’, ‘protection’ + man ‘man’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of poorman Families in the US in 1920
Number of poorman families
 74-146
 25-73		 1-24
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