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Poorman Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Poorman Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Poorman families
 74 - 146  25 - 73 |
 1 - 24  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Poorman families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Poorman Family Occupations
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