Scottish: habitational name from places called Ormiston, in the
former counties of Roxburgh and East Lothian, named with the genitive
case of the Old Norse personal name Ormr (see Orme 1) +
Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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