Southern French: metonymic occupational name for a gardener or
topographic name for someone who lived near an enclosed garden,
Occitan ort (Latin hortus).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).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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