Family name origins & meanings
- German : possibly a habitational name for someone from Kohren in Saxony, which was earlier called Kohr(e).
- German (Kohrmann) : of uncertain origin. Either a variant of Kuhrmann, itself a variant of Kuhr, or a reduced form of Kornmann, an occupational name for the manager of a granary, from Middle High German korn ‘grain’ + man ‘man’.