Orma

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Marialva (Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022

Orma is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.

France (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Record sources
38 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Marialva

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Orma counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Orma is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—5Orma38
US United States—192—5
FI Finland—50——
BR Brazil—48——
AR Argentina—46——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Orma is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Örmä

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Örmä

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Orma is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, to move in a way that reminds the movement of a snake; to slither, to snake

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Hungarian, third-person singular single-possession possessive of orom

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Icelandic, accusative plural of ormur

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, footprint

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1850190019502000Adolfo Orma, b. 1863Orma Aunio, b. 1940Jukka Orma, b. 1956

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

(measured from records)

24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Orma mean, and where does it come from?
Marialva Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
In which country does Orma have the most bearers?
Orma is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled orma.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Orma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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