A male name. Old English Northman and cognate Old German Nordemann were both used as christian names (cf. German, Franco). Norman was fairly common in England before the Norman Conquest, and in Domesday Book there is mention of several tenants of this name who had held land Tempore Regis Edwardi (In the Reign of Edward the Confessor). It continued in use for some centuries and gave rise to the surnames Norman and Normand, but died out in England about the 14th C, though it continued to be used in Scotland. Charlotte Mary Yonge, History of ChristianNames, 2 vols. 1863. Revised ed. 1884 regards it as being in her time exclusively Scottish, and its modern revival in England may be due in part to her use of it in The Daisy Chain (1856).

Normann, Normannus Domesday Book 1086, Hundred Rolls 1273. Norman Hundred Rolls 1273.

Teutonic, ‘Niord’s man.’ Niord, Norse god of the sea, was not only a very ancient deity but almost equal in power to Odin. The name was in use in England before the Norman Conquest. In C13, ‘English nobles carried Norman to Scotland, where it was adopted in the Leslie family, and, like Nigel, became exclusively Scottish.’ Not exclusively, Miss Yonge; for in mid C19-20, it has been frequently given to non-Scottish boys.

A name signifying ‘one from Normandy.’ It is found Latinised Normannus.

A Gaelic name: Tormoid, Tòrmod (Dial. Tormailt, for earlier Tormond), documents Tormode (David II.'s reign); from Norse Thórmóðr, the wrath of Thor, English mood. The form Tormund alternates with Tormod (1584, 1560): “Thor’s protection;” whence the . Dial. Tormailt (cf. iarmailt for phonetics). Cf. Gearmailt, Germany.