Orness
English
Etymology
A variant of Urness or an Americanized spelling of Norwegian Årnes.
Proper noun
Orness (plural Ornesses)
- A surname from Norwegian.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Orness is the 197606th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 103 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Orness”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears