Ort Family History
Ort Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Ort Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ort families
 40 - 78  14 - 39 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ort families
|
9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Ort last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ort Family Origin
Ort Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Ort
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Ort Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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