Last name: ORT
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ORT : This last name is indexed 24,183 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
ORT : German:: 3: from the ancient Germanic personal name Ort(o) a short form of various compound names with the first element ort ‘point (of a sword spear)’. This surname is also found in France. Compare Orth.1: topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill or the end of a settlement from Middle High German ort in the transferred sense ‘tip extremity’ (in modern German the word has come to mean ‘point spot place’).2: habitational name from Ort in Bavaria Lower Saxony Schleswig-Holstein or Austria.
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