Pearman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘grower or seller of pears’, or ‘person who lives by a pear orchard’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈpɛɹmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pearman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Bermuda it is the 28th most common surname.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 48K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 67K
- USUnited States1 in 114K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 270 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
2,910 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Bermuda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘grower or seller of pears’, or ‘person who lives by a pear orchard’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pearman counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,910 | 1 in 114K | 2.9K | Pearman | 270 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 2.2K | Pearman | 161 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Pearman | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Pearman | 95 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Pearman | 4 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Pearman | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Pearman | 25 |
| BM Bermuda | #28 | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Pearman | 23 |
2,910 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pearman is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, a grower or seller of pears; from OE peru, pyrige; first attested Robert Pyrman 1296 SRSx
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joseph Pearmanb. 1892USAmerican racewalker (1892-1961)
- Graeme Pearmanb. 1941AUAustralian scientist
- D. Pearmanb. 1943GBBritish botanist
- Hugh Pearmanb. 1945GBEnglish cricketer (born 1945)
- Hugh Pearmanb. 1955GBBritish journalist
- Tammy Pearmanb. 1973USAmerican soccer player
- Alvin Pearmanb. 1982USAmerican football player
- Raven-Symonéb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, singer, and songwriter
- Maddison Pearmanb. 1996CACanadian speed skater
- Francis PearmanUSresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #10,942 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,527 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,463 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 2.2K | #3,427 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pearman mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘grower or seller of pears’, or ‘person who lives by a pear orchard’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Pearman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɛɹmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pearman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Pearman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pearman.
- How common is the name Pearman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,910 people named Pearman in 2010, about 1 in 114 thousand residents.
- How common is Pearman compared with other names?
- In Bermuda, Pearman is the 28th most common surname of 6,699 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pearman” — the 28th most common surname in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.