Gorman

At the 2020 census, 30,102 Americans bore the surname Gorman — 1,145th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 9,930.

By the numbers

People: 30,102
Rank: 1,145th
How common: 1 in 9,930
Per 100,000: 10.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Gormáin (“descendant of Gormán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive form of gorm (“dark blue; noble”). Compare O'Gorman.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gorman described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.5%
Black, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Gorman

Amanda Gorman (born 1998)American poet and activist
Burn Gorman (born 1974)British actor
Frank Gorman (born 1937)former American Olympic diver
Tommy Gorman (1886–1961)Canadian professional ice hockey executive, sports entrepreneur, sports writer and athlete
Cliff Gorman (1936–2002)American actor
Margaret Gorman (1905–1995)American beauty queen, Miss America winner
James Gorman (1859–1929)American sport shooter
Tom Gorman (born 1946)American tennis player

People named Gorman with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gorman

Also a first name

Gorman has been given to 818 American babies as a first name since 1903, peaking in 1924. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.