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).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,109,082 Historical Documents with Orr on Ancestry
- 499,778 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 376,303 Census and Voter Lists
- 71,372 Military Records
- 53,471 Immigration Records
- 1,108,158 Member Trees
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Number of Orr families
 327 - 652  110 - 326 |
 1 - 109  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Orr families
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208 - 414 70 - 207 |
1 - 69 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Orr families
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810 - 1,618 271 - 809 |
1 - 270 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Orr census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Orr census records
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- All Orr
- 1,411
- Confederate
- 547
- Union
- 864
from the Civil War Service Records
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