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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in Lancashire, called Ormerod, from the Old Norse personal name Ormr (see Orme 1) or Ormarr (a compound of orm ‘serpent’ + herr ‘army’) + Old English rod ‘clearing’.

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