Norman

From an old Germanic byname meaning "northman", referring to a Viking. The Normans were Vikings who settled on the coast of France, in the region that became known as Normandy. In England the name Norman or Normant was used before the Norman conquest, first as a nickname for Scandinavian settlers and later as a given name. After the Conquest it became more common, but died out around the 14th century. It was revived in the 19th century, perhaps in part due to a character by this name in C. M. Yonge's novel 'The Daisy Chain' (1856).

• Elizabeth Gidley Withycombe, The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names (1945)
  
• Ernst Förstemann, Altdeutsches namenbuch (1900), page 1169
  

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