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orris Name Meaning and History

English (Suffolk): from a vernacular form of the Latin name Horatius, which, according to Reaney and Wilson, was apparently taken to England during the Renaissance in the Italian form Horatio.

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Distribution of orris Families in the US in 1920
Number of orris families
 79-155
 27-78
 1-26
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