Family name origins & meanings
- English (Somerset) : unexplained; possibly a shortened form of Urchfont, name of a place in Wiltshire, which is named with the Old English personal name Eohrīc + funta ‘spring’, ‘well’.
- Germanized spelling of Slovenian Urh, from the personal name Urh, Slovenian vernacular form of Ulrik, German Udalrich.