Claim: The United States Board on Geographic Names named the stream in 1933  after Charles Moorman, who in 1735 patented 400 acres (1.6 km) of land in what was then Goochland County, at the junction of the Mechum and (now) Moorman rivers, a 14.3-mile-long (23.0 km) tributary of the South Fork of the Rivanna River in central Virginia in the United States.
Verdict: SUPPORT