O'Gorman Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Arms linked to Gorman and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Meaning of the name

O'Gorman is a familiar spelling of the Irish name Gorman. The name is generally explained as “Son of Gormán ("little blue one")”.

O'Gorman simply joins the particle O' to Gorman, a pattern common in Irish naming. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Related forms: Gormon and MacGorman. The 2010 census count for O'Gorman in the United States was 2,397, good for rank 12,842. It sits among the 25,000 most common last names in the country.

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