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SOURCE: Location & Other
OTHER FORMS: Urquhart
CONTRIBUTOR: LMS on 6/6/2016
Meaning & History
English: topographic name for someone who lived by an orchard, or a metonymic occupational name for a fruit grower, from Middle English
orchard.
English: habitational name from any of the places called Orchard. Those in Devon and Somerset are named from Old English
ortgeard,
orceard (a compound of
wort,
wyrt ‘plant’ (later associated with Latin
hortus ‘garden’) +
geard ‘yard’, ‘enclosure’), while East and West Orchard near Shaftesbury in Dorset have a different origin, ‘(place) beside the wood’, from Celtic
ar +
ced.
Scottish: English surname adopted as equivalent of
Urquhart.