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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and French (Alsace) : from a short form of the personal name Pirmin, the name of an 8th century bishop and founder of several monasteries in southern Germany, or, according to some sources, from the French personal name Pierre (see Peter).

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