Parmenter Family History
Parmenter Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English parmenter parminter ‘tailor’ (Old French parementier from Late Latin parmentarius) which could denote not only a tailor but also a maker of facings and trimmings or a furrier. Possibly also an altered form of French (and Walloon and Flemish) Parmentier a cognate of 1 above. Compare Permenter .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022