Given name & surname
Loman
“one who is small and bare”
Loman is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “one who is small and bare.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “one who is small and bare.”
How it developed
The name is derived from Gaelic lomm, meaning “bare”.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Loman through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 283
- 283 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 16 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 9 in 1967. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 162 as a first name in 2020; 1,852 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.
Loman’s family of names
Loman has a related form in Loeman. Loman has a related form in Loemann. Loman has a related form in Lomann.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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