Orr Family History
Orr Name Meaning
Northern English, Scottish, and northern Irish: from the Old
Norse byname Orri ‘blackcock’ (the male black grouse).Scottish: nickname for someone with a sallow complexion, from
Gaelic odhar ‘pale’, ‘dun’.English: topographic name for
someone who lived on a shore or ridge, from Old English ora
‘shore’, ‘hill-slope’, ‘flat-topped ridge’, or a habitational name
from a place named with this word (see Ore).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Orr
Name Distribution of Orr Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Orr families
 327 - 652  110 - 326 |
 1 - 109  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Orr families
|
208 - 414 70 - 207 |
1 - 69 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Orr families
|
810 - 1,618 271 - 809 |
1 - 270 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Orr census records
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Orr Family Origin
Orr Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Orr
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Orr Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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