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Last name origins & meanings:

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