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.English: from the Middle English
personal name Gormund, Old English Garmund, composed
of the elements gar ‘spear’ + mund
‘protection’.English: topographic name for someone who lived by
or on a triangular patch of land (see Gore).German
(Görmann): variant of Gehrmann.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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