Gorman

Where Gorman comes from

Gorman hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1903
    First appearance
    #1,009 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1904
    Peak, #966
    7 babies named Gorman — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1905
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1959
    Gorman Bechard born
    filmmaker
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Gorman Bechard · filmmaker, born 1959

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.