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gorman Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gormáin and Ó Gormáin ‘son (or descendant) of Gormán’, a personal name from a diminutive of gorm ‘dark blue’, ‘noble’. Compare O’Gorman.
  2. English: from the Middle English personal name Gormund, Old English Garmund, composed of the elements gar ‘spear’ + mund ‘protection’.
  3. English: topographic name for someone who lived by or on a triangular patch of land (see Gore).
  4. German (Görmann): variant of Gehrmann.
  5. German (Görmann): of Slavic origin, occupational name for a miner, from Slavic góra ‘mountain’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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gorman Family Facts

Distribution of gorman Families in the US in 1920
Number of gorman families
 564-1126
 189-563		 1-188
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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