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The surname Orthmann is derived from the High German word "ort," meaning "high point." The name was likely first borne by someone living at the end of a street or a village.
The surname Orthmann was first found in Wertheim, Main, where Orto of Mendfeld is recorded to have been living in 1260. Another early instance of the name dates back to 1271, when Thietrich an dem Orte was recorded as being a resident of Basel.
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Spelling variations of this family name include: Ort, Orte, Orto, Ohrt, Orthmann, Ohrtmann, Ordemann and many more.
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Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Adam Orth, who settled in Philadelphia in 1729; Baltzer Ort and his wife Anna Catharina, who arrived in Quitopehille, a Moravian settlement in Pennsylvania, with their three children in 1748.