Meaning & origin
What it means
O'Gorman goes back to Irish Ó Gormáin, meaning “descendant of Gormán.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Irish Ó Gormáin (“descendant of Gormán”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
O'Gorman’s family of names
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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