<Tr> <Th> Clan affiliations </Th> <Td> Campbell, MacGregor </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Footnotes: Frequency Comparisons </Td> </Tr> <P> Orr is a surname common throughout the English - speaking world, but especially in Scotland, Ulster, the United States, Canada, and northern England . The name is considered to have numerous origins: such as being derived from an Old Norse byname; a Gaelic nickname; and an Old English topographical name, or similar place - name . </P> <P> There are numerous origins for the surname . The northern English, Scottish and Northern Irish surname is derived from the Old Norse byname Orri, meaning "blackcock" (a male black grouse). Another origin for the Scottish name is from the Gaelic odhar, meaning "pale", "dun". Another origin for the English name is from a topographical name for a person who lived on a shore, or ridge . This name is derived from the Old English ora, meaning "shore", "hill - slope", "flat - topped ridge". The name could also be derived from a place - name, derived from this Old English word; for example, the surname Ore is derived from Oare, in Berkshire, Kent; and Wiltshire; or Ore, in East Sussex . Padraig Mac Giolla Domhnaigh, suggested that the Irish surname originates from an Anglicisation of Gaelic Mac Iomhaire . Mac Giolla Domhnaigh stated that this was an old name from Renfrewshire, and a sept of the Campbells; he stated that the name was earlier spelt Mac Ure . </P>

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