Orme
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ON Ormr, ODa/OSw Orm 'serpent'; first attested Orm 1066 DB (Yorkshire) (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Orme is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 50Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 60K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 295 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Antigua & Barbuda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from ON Ormr, ODa/OSw Orm 'serpent'; first attested Orm 1066 DB (Yorkshire)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Orme is found
(measured from records)Orme counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 4.4K | Orme | 179 |
| US United States | 2,489 | 1 in 134K | 2.6K | Orme | 295 |
| AU Australia | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 60K | 1 | Orme | 75 |
| CA Canada | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Orme | 49 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 325K | — | Orme | 17 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Orme | 37 |
| IE Ireland | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Orme | 18 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Orme | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Orme is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname from Old Norse.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, indefinite plural of orm
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrm, elm, esp. Cornish elm
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)- Geoffrey Ormeb. 1904GBBritish screen writer
- Stanley Orme, Baron Ormeb. 1923GBBritish politician (1923-2005)
- Jamie Malonzob. 1996USnot in their usual nameFilipino basketball player (born 1996)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Orme mean, and where does it come from?
- from ON Ormr, ODa/OSw Orm 'serpent'; first attested Orm 1066 DB (Yorkshire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Orme?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Orme in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled orme. After it come United States, Australia, Canada and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Orme?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,489 people named Orme in 2010, about 1 in 134 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ormeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Orme” — ranked 1836th in the United Kingdom (Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.