Orm

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Initialism of object–relational mapping (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/oɾm/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Orm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 163 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.

  • EEEstonia≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NONorway1 in 249K
  • SESweden≈1 in 1.4M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

163 people, 2010

Record sources
109 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Orm

  • Spanish:/oɾm/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Initialism of object–relational mapping.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Orm is found

(measured from records)

Orm 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.

Where Orm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1631 in 2M163Orm109
EE Estonia≈81 est.≈1 in 17K27—7
NO Norway221 in 249K22——
CA Canada≈20 est.≈1 in 2.1M—Orm10
ZA South Africa≈16 est.≈1 in 4.1M—Orm1
SE Sweden≈7 est.≈1 in 1.4M85—3

163 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)

Orm is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, United States, Peru, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Őřm

  • Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia

    Also written Örm

  • Thai surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand

    Also written ออมอร, Omon, อ้อมอ่รี, Ôrm

  • Danish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Also written Örm

36 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)

Orm is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, snake; a legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes

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

  • ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Oromo.

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

  • In Scottish Gaelic, first-person singular of air: on me

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

  • In Irish, first-person singular of ar: on me

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

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, a snake

    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)

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)
FormalDear Mr Orm,
InformalHi Orm,

Evidence

(measured from records)

16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Orm mean, and where does it come from?
Initialism of object–relational mapping. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Orm?
In Spanish /oɾm/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Orm?
In the United States, the national register counted about 163 people named Orm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled orm. After it come Estonia, Norway, Canada and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Orm?
In the United States, the national register counted 163 people named Orm in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.

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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, “Orm” — ranked 104257th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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