Orr
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English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ɔɹ/
- Homophones: oar, ore; or (horse–hoarse merger)
Proper noun
Orr
- A Scottish surname.
- 1971, Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe Of Heaven:
- Your God is a reproachful God. But guilt was not the way to get at George Orr; if he had been a man much given to guilt feelings he would not have lived to thirty.
- An unincorporated community in Kentucky
- A city in Minnesota
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Orr is the 774th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 44,388 individuals. Orr is most common among White (79.42%) and Black (15.00%) individuals.