Surname Spotlight: Bowerman

Arms linked to Boorman and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

The meaning behind Bowerman

Bowerman is how some branches of the Boorman family came to write their name. The name is usually explained as “Man from the bower”.

Records show Bowerman as one of the forms Boorman took over time. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. Other spellings include Borman. About 3,702 people in the United States were recorded as Bowerman in 2010, placing it 8,850 on the national list.

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