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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Czech, Slovak, Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic), and Slovenian : occupational name for a carter or drayman, the driver of a horse-drawn delivery vehicle, from Polish, Yiddish, and Slovenian furman, a loanword from German (see Fuhrmann).
  • English : variant of Firmin.
  • Americanized spelling of German Fuhrmann.

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