The surname Orta
A Catalan place surname, carried by 7,820 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex O630
Origin
Catalan origin
Borrowed from Catalan, Galician and Portuguese Orta, a topographic surname from horta (“kitchen garden”).
Orta is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 39 Catalan surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 7,820 people named Orta in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 39,482 Americans. That is up 35% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,808.
Who is named Orta
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Orta identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 8.4% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 90%
- White (not Hispanic) 8.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- Two or more races 0.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Orta has the Soundex code O630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O630.
Other Catalan surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Orta come from?
- Borrowed from Catalan, Galician and Portuguese Orta, a topographic surname from horta (“kitchen garden”).
- How common is the surname Orta?
- 7,820 people in the United States had the surname Orta in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 39,482 Americans. It ranked 4,535th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Orta?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Orta identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 8.4% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Orta?
- Orta is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Orta getting more or less common?
- More common. 5,808 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,820 in 2010, up 35%.