Family name origins & meanings
- German : occupational name for a swineherd, from Middle High German bēr ‘boar’ + man ‘man’.
- German : occupational name for someone who exhibited a bear (see Bearman).
- North German : from a short form of any of the various medieval personal names derived from Germanic compound names with the first element ber(n) ‘bear’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Berman.