The gorman Surname
gorman Name Meaning and History
- 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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