Perman Family History
- Perman Name Meaning
- Dutch: from a short form the personal name Perre, a Dutch form of Peter. Dutch: occupational name for a seller or grower of pears, from pere ‘pear’. German: southern variant of Bermann, from an old personal name formed with Old High German bero ‘bear’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Berman and Perelman.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 46,854 Historical Documents with Perman on Ancestry
- 16,408 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,452 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,279 Military Records
- 2,202 Immigration Records
- 14,513 Member Trees
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Number of Perman families
 14 - 25  5 - 13 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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38 - 73 13 - 37 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Perman census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Perman census records
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- All Perman
- 15
- Confederate
- 4
- Union
- 11
from the Civil War Service Records
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