The story
- Russian · derived fromкарман“pocket”
- Hungarian · borrowed fromKármán
- German · derived fromKarmann
- Dutch · borrowed fromKarman
- English todayKarman
Various origins: * Borrowed from Dutch Karman, an occupational surname for a carter. * A variant of German Karmann, which shares the same origin of the Dutch surname. * Borrowed from Hungarian Kármán, an ethnic name for the Turkish people of the Karaman Province. * A Jewish surname from Russian карман (karman, “pocket”), probably a metonymic occupational surname.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.