Surname statistics for Gorman

There are approximately 11,473 people named Gorman in the UK. That makes it the 908th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 182 are named Gorman.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)11473908N/A182
United Kingdom (1881 census)361312470.012121
Change since 1881+7860+339+0.006+61
Other Countries
United States312851024N/A116
Australia2241713N/A137

Politics

People with the surname Gorman are considerably less likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Green.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Gorman
Michael Gorman
Stephen Gorman
Paul Gorman
Andrew Gorman
Mark Gorman
Christopher Gorman
Robert Gorman
Peter Gorman
William Gorman
David Gorman
James Gorman
Neil Gorman
Patrick Gorman
Sean Gorman
Brian Gorman
Anthony Gorman
Keith Gorman
Richard Gorman
Colin Gorman

Top female forenames

Lorraine Gorman
Karen Gorman
Helen Gorman
Jennifer Gorman
Susan Gorman
Margaret Gorman
Sarah Gorman
Sandra Gorman
Mary Gorman
Carol Gorman
Elizabeth Gorman
Rosemary Gorman
Angela Gorman
Ann Gorman
Patricia Gorman
Catherine Gorman
Amanda Gorman
Linda Gorman
Michelle Gorman
Sharon Gorman

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.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there 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!

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 UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.