English: from an Old Norse personal name Kar(l)ma{dh}r
(accusative Kar(l)mann), composed of the elements karl
‘male’, ‘man’ + ma{dh}r ‘man’, ‘person’.English:
occupational name for a carter, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle
English car(re) ‘cart’ (Late Latin carrus) + Middle
English man ‘man’.Dutch: variant spelling of
Karman.Altered spelling of Germann or
Korman.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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