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Norman as a given name is of mostly English origin. It is a Germanic name and is composed of the elements nord ("north") + man ("man"). The name can be found in England before the Norman Invasion of 1066, but gained popularity by its use by Norman settlers in England after the invasion.
The English name "Normans" comes from the French words Normans/Normanz, plural of Normant, [17] modern French normand, which is itself borrowed from Old Low Franconian Nortmann "Northman" [18] or directly from Old Norse Norðmaðr, Latinized variously as Nortmannus, Normannus, or Nordmannus (recorded in Medieval Latin, 9th century) to mean "Norseman, Viking".
Norman (name), including list of persons and fictional characters with the name; Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman (1871–1950), English banker, Governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944; Norman baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom; Norman the Lunatic and Norman the Maniac, ring names of American professional ...
Other Norman aristocrats with English wives following the conquest include William Pece, Richard Juvenis and Odo, a Norman knight. [1] Eventually, even this distinction largely disappeared in the course of the Hundred Years War (1337–1453), and by the 14th century Normans identified themselves as English, having been fully assimilated into ...
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In most cases, the names are "one-off" Latinized forms produced by adding the genitive endings -ii or -i for a man, -ae for a woman, or -orum in plural, to a family name, thereby creating a Latinized form. For example, a name such as Macrochelys temminckii notionally represents a latinization of the family name of Coenraad Jacob Temminck to ...
Norman Mark Reedus [1] [2] (born January 6, 1969) [3] [4] is an American actor. He made his acting debut in the 1990s, starring in the role of Murphy MacManus in The Boondock Saints , followed by supporting roles in successful box office films 8MM, Blade II , and American Gangster .
Norm is a masculine given name, most often a short form of Norman. People named Norm include: Norm Abram (born 1949), carpenter on the television show This Old House; Norm Cash (1933–1986), American baseball player; Norm Chow (born 1946), American football coach; Norm Cox (American football) (1925–2008), American football quarterback