Irish : perhaps an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dornáin
‘descendant of Doirnín’, a byname from a diminutive of
dorn ‘fist’. Compare Dornan. However, this may
alternatively be an irregularly formed patronymic from the English
surname Dorman, which is well established in Ireland.
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