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’. EGNot in RW, DEB. Nvertheless,
plausibly English origin. Re-examine the evidence for this and
Poor(e).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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