Cormac
KOR-mak
Irish/Gaelic
Boy
Meaning-based name
- Meaning
- Son of the charioteer; Raven
- Origin
- Irish/Gaelic
- Is it in the Bible?
- No — the name Cormac does not appear in the King James Bible. Christian families use it for its meaning, "Son of the charioteer; Raven", and for the biblical themes that meaning touches, not because anyone in Scripture is called Cormac.
- First appears in
- Does not appear in the King James text
- Peak US usage
- No recorded United States usage in the 1880–2008 records
- Spiritual meaning
- Cormac rides like Elijah — chariots of fire, thousands of angels, the son marked for heaven's whirlwind ascent.
- Verses on this meaning
- 2 Kings 2:11
"And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven."
- Psalm 68:17
"The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels."
- 2 Kings 2:11