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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Irish: Green
  2. Scottish: Pale-skinned
  3. Hebrew, Gaelic: Ash tree; pale; pine tree

First name variations: Orin, Orren, Orran, Orrin, Oram, Orrie, Oran

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Dutch: variant of Horn.
  2. Americanized form of Norwegian Øren, a habitational name from any of about thirty farmsteads, mainly on the west coast of Norway, named Øyra, from Old Norse eyrr ‘delta’, ‘sandbank’.
  3. Americanized spelling of German Ohren.
  4. Jewish (Israeli): ornamental name from Hebrew oren ‘pine tree’. In some cases it may be a substitute for some original Ashkenazic name of similar sound or meaning, e.g. Tannenbaum or Sosna.

This name appears in the following lists: Biblical Names, Flowers and Trees