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The oren Surname

oren Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch: variant of Horn.
  2. Americanized form of Norwegian Øren, a habitational name from any of about thirty farmsteads, mainly on the west coast of Norway, named Øyra, from Old Norse eyrr ‘delta’, ‘sandbank’.
  3. Americanized spelling of German Ohren.
  4. Jewish (Israeli): ornamental name from Hebrew oren ‘pine tree’. In some cases it may be a substitute for some original Ashkenazic name of similar sound or meaning, e.g. Tannenbaum or Sosna.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of oren Families in the US in 1920
Number of oren families
 19-36
 7-18		 1-6
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Searching for connection between Oren and Wright families geraldine baker 2
Oren's in Southwestern Ohio StephSH 0
Meander Melvia Oren Kathy Black 13
just starting donnieoren 0
Oren of the 87th PA Inf - Civil War Dennis Brandt 13
Abigail Oren York Co PA>Decatur, Ill Cheryl Sachan 3
John Birdsell Oren 1933 Coast Guard/Chicago tiriba 8
Glade Leroy Oren Don Henthorn 0
family members michael j oren 3
OREN / WATT IN FLORIDA mommazerk1 0
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