Gorman Family History
Gorman Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Gorman Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gorman families
 564 - 1,126  189 - 563 |
 1 - 188  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gorman families
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399 - 796 134 - 398 |
1 - 133 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gorman families
|
272 - 542 91 - 271 |
1 - 90 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gorman Family Origin
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Gorman Family Occupations
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