The surname Orme
A Norse surname, carried by 2,489 people in the United States.
Pronounced /ɔɹm/ 1 syllable Soundex O650
Origin
Norse origin
From the Old Norse personal name Ormr.
One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,489 people named Orme in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 124,044 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,414.
Who is named Orme
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Orme identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Orme has the Soundex code O650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O650.
Other Norse surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Orme come from?
- From the Old Norse personal name Ormr.
- How common is the surname Orme?
- 2,489 people in the United States had the surname Orme in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 124,044 Americans. It ranked 12,473rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Orme?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Orme identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
- How do you pronounce Orme?
- Orme is /ɔɹm/, one syllable.
- Is the surname Orme getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,414 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,489 in 2010, up 3.1%.