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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from places called Ormiston, in the former counties of Roxburgh and East Lothian, named with the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Ormr (see Orme 1) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

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