Frequency: (232)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Variant spelling of Dutch and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Bierman or an altered spelling of the German cognate Biermann.
GIVEN NAMES: Jewish 11%; Russian 10%. Yakov (2), Amnon, Anat, Gitla, Irina, Isak, Sol; Igor (4), Leonid (2), Vladimir (2), Betya, Boris, Grigoriy, Lev, Lilya, Oksana, Vyacheslav.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
