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orth Name Meaning and History

  1. North German: variant spelling of Ort 3.
  2. German and French: from a short form of a compound personal name formed with ort ‘point (of a weapon)’, as the first element (for example, Ortlieb).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of orth Families in the US in 1920
Number of orth families
 72-142
 25-71		 1-24
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Threads: 100 - Messages: 305
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Orth family of Minnesota sflorman 14
Orth korth5 0
ORTH/MEINECKE/MILWAUKEE WISC> pwelch1057 5
William Phillip Orth chestado1 0
William Orth Doreen 17
Peter Orth family Wisc after 1873 KarenBurkholder67 0
Orths - NY/NJ thedunphys 1
ORTH, JACOB G.; Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient - Civil War jasche 1
Otto Orth Brandon Orth 1
Orth, Johann Sharon Johnston Whitmore 4
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