Last 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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