Given name & surname
Gorman
“having blue eyes”
Gorman is used as a given name and a surname. One Irish interpretation is “having blue eyes.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Irish interpretation is “having blue eyes.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Irish.
How it developed
From Irish Ó Gormáin (“descendant of Gormán”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1903. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gorman through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 818
- 818 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 32 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1980. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 32 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 346 as a first name in 2020; 30,102 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gorman’s family of names
Gorman has a related form in Gormaen. Gorman has a related form in Gormaene. Gorman has a related form in Gormain.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Gorman
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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