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ort Name Meaning and History

  1. Southern French: metonymic occupational name for a gardener or topographic name for someone who lived near an enclosed garden, Occitan ort (Latin hortus).
  2. German: from a Germanic personal name Ort, a short form of the various compound names with the first element ord ‘point’ (of a sword, spear).
  3. German: topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill or the end of a settlement, from Middle High German ort (see 2 above), in the transferred sense ‘tip’, ‘extremity’. In modern German the word has come to mean ‘point’, ‘spot’, ‘place’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The ort name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the ort family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of ort Families in the US in 1920
Number of ort families
 40-78
 14-39		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 34 - Messages: 132
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ORT Madelyn 1933 1989 t42FlowerM_DenCoTX 0
Emma E Ort (married 1880) Mr J M Wiles RoseStout54 1
Neva Virginia (Ort) Scoviac Obit Obitslenaweecounty 0
Rowley K. Ortt of the Clipper Lawn Mower Co, Dixon, Il. carolortt 0
Ort Family Shelly 22
William Ort and Issabella Updegraff Linda Cook 3
Peter Ort, Pittsburg, PA, 1850 amkugler 6
Ort family in Asia WalOrt 0
Norman E. Ort Family Seawolf671 2
John Fancis Ort b 1893 MYadonMcPherson 0
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