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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Northumbria) and Scottish : habitational name from East Ord in Northumberland, named with Old English ord ‘point’. Compare Ort 3.
  • English : from a Germanic personal name (see Ort 2).
  • Scottish : habitational name from various minor places named with Gaelic ord ‘hammer’, used as a topographical term for a rounded hill.

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