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The GORMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 31,285 1024 0.012 116
United States (1880 census) 11,430 524 0.023 229
Change since 1880 +19855 -500 -0.011 -113
Other Countries
Australia 2,241 713 0.014 137
United Kingdom 7,422 829 0.016 162
Top States for GORMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 3,051 526 0.016 161
California 2,474 1320 0.007 73
Florida 2,101 953 0.013 131
Pennsylvania 1,824 700 0.015 149
Massachusetts 1,747 458 0.028 275
Top States for GORMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,747 458 0.028 275
Rhode Island 268 477 0.026 256
Connecticut 775 445 0.023 228
Maine 256 993 0.020 201
New Jersey 1,652 447 0.020 196

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GORMAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GORMAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GORMAN in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GORMAN by picking someone at random in Massachusetts than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GORMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GORMAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GORMAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GORMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 973 3.11
Native American/Alaskan 607 1.94
White (Hispanic) 573 1.83
Mixed Race 379 1.21
Asian/Pacific 131 0.42
White (Caucasian) 28,620 91.48

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GORMAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GORMAN in historical publications

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

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to GORMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GORMAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GORMAN

The following words are slight variants of GORMAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.