Given name & surname · also Catalan

Orta

“kitchen garden”

Orta is a surname from Catalan (ultimately Portuguese).

Meaning & origin

What it means

Orta goes back to a word, meaning “kitchen garden.”

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Where it comes from

Orta comes from Catalan, and ultimately from Portuguese.

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How it developed

From Portuguese Orta.

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Orta’s family of names

In Lower Sorbian usage, Orta has a conventional equivalent in the German form URTE. In Greek usage, Orta as a surname is a transliteration of Ορτά.

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OrtaΟρτάUrte

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Spellings & scripts 1

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Across languages 1

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