Oort

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Oort.

Proper noun

Oort (plural Oorts)

1. A surname from Dutch.

Derived terms

• Oort Cloud

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Oort is the 494117^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 27 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Oort”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears