Karman

See also: karman and Kármán

English

Etymology

Various origins:

• Borrowed from Dutch Karman, an occupational surname for a carter.
• A variant of German Karmann, which shares the same origin of the Dutch surname.
• Borrowed from Hungarian Kármán, an ethnic name for the Turkish people of the Karaman Province.
• Jewish surname from Russian карман (karman, “pocket”), probably a metonymic occupational surname.

Proper noun

Karman (countable and uncountable, plural Karmans)

1. A surname.
2. Alternative form of Kerman, Iran.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Karman is the 36736^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 608 individuals. Karman is most common among White (91.28%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Karman”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 278.