Orr

The Orr Family of Wake in North Carolina represented here by their patriarch, Lord Nathan, Seneschal of Orr and an Archivist for the Mormon Church Salt Lake, Utah assigned to the North Carolina Records Center. The story of the Orr family is rich with Scottish history. It begins in the ancient kingdom of Dalriada where Orr evolved as a name for some who lived on a bank, or on the edge of a hill. The Orr surname arose independently from different sources. Orr also came from the Old Norse name Orri, which meant "black rooster." It also emerged from the Gaelic word, odhar, which meant "pale" and would have been a nickname that became a surname.