Dorman is a surname, derived from the Middle English word dere, or deor, meant "wild animal". Therefore, Dorman translates as "wild animal", or, perhaps, "wild animal-man". Another, Old English, derivation is from the Old English word deor, meaning "deer", and, mann, meaning "man": thus, Deer Man. Dorman is also a Turkic name which was widely used by the Cumans and Pechenegs.[1] Americanized form of German Dormann: occupational name for a doorkeeper or gatekeeper or topographic name for someone who lived by the gate of a town or city. Compare Dorer Dorwart . Hungarian (Dormán): from the old personal name Dormán. Jewish (Ashkenazic): Tall, beautiful, God's chosen, exiled ones . Notable people with the surname include:

People

  • Andy Dorman (born 1982), Welsh football (soccer) player
  • Angela Dohrmann, American television actress
  • Arabella Dorman (born 1965), British artist
  • Sir Arthur Dorman, 1st Baronet (1848–1931), British industrialist, founder of Dorman Long
  • Avner Dorman (born 1975), Israeli contemporary composer
  • Dave Dorman (born 1958), American science fiction and fantasy illustrator
  • David Dorman (born 1954), American telecommunications executive, chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T Inc.
  • Eric Dorman-Smith (1895–1969), British Army officer
  • Henry Dorman (1916-1998), American politician and lawyer
  • Isaiah Dorman (died 1876), African American interpreter for the United States Army during the Indian Wars
  • John J. Dorman, Fire Commissioner of the City of New York
  • Lee Dorman (1942–2012), American bass guitarist, member of Iron Butterfly
  • Maurice Henry Dorman (1902–1993), British diplomat, served as Governors-General of Sierra Leone and Malta
  • Orloff M. Dorman (1809–1879), justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia
  • Peter Dorman, American epigraphist, philologist, and cultural anthropologist
  • Reginald Dorman-Smith (1899–1977), British diplomat, soldier and politician, UK Minister of Agriculture
  • Robert Dorman (1859–1937), Irish socialist activist
  • Sonya Dorman (1924–2005), American poet
  • Thomas Dorman, English Catholic theologian of the sixteenth century
  • Dorman (12th century), was either a Cuman warrior in Bulgarian service or a Bulgarian noble of Cuman origin, who ruled the region of Braničevo as an independent state.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ István Vásáry (2005) Cumans and Tatars, Cambridge University Press, p. 105
  2. ↑ István Vásáry (2005) Cumans and Tatars, Cambridge University Press, p. 105
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