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Surname Etymology and Meaning of GORMAN

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A native of Germany, the same as Germain (which see).

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

1. 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.
2. English: from the Middle English personal name Gormund, Old English Garmund, composed of the elements gar ‘spear’ + mund ‘protection’.
3. English: topographic name for someone who lived by or on a triangular patch of land (see Gore).
4. German (Görmann): variant of Gehrmann.
5. German (Görmann): of Slavic origin, occupational name for a miner, from Slavic góra ‘mountain’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)