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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : elaborated form of Pearl 2, with the addition of Yiddish man ‘man’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish female personal name Perl (see Perel) + man ‘man’, in the sense ‘husband of Perl’.

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