Given name · also Old Norse

Kormákur

Kormákur is a masculine given name from Old Norse, ultimately from Old Irish. It is used in Icelandic.

Original Old NorseKormákr

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Kormákur comes from Old Norse, and ultimately from Old Irish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Icelandic usage, Kormákur developed from Cormac.

Kormákur’s family of names

In Icelandic usage, Kormákur developed from the Old Irish form Cormac. In Icelandic usage, Kormákur continues an earlier form in Kormákr. In Icelandic usage, Kormákur has a conventional equivalent in the English form Cormac.

Walk Kormákur’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Kormákur, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Irish · Celtic

Conchúr

“hound” · “desiring”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Irish

Corriher

Corriher is a surname, probably from Irish.

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Irish

Corkery

“descendant of Corcra”

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Irish

Corbally

Corbally is a surname from Irish.

No U.S. birth series

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Irish

Conchoor

“hound” · “desiring”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Irish

Carraher

“son of Fearchar”

No U.S. birth series

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Irish

Comiskey

Comiskey is a surname from Irish.

No U.S. birth series

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Irish

Cohea

Cohea is a surname from Irish.

No U.S. birth series

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Kormákur’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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