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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.

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.