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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.

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