Ortner Family History
Ortner Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived on the fringe of a village or settlement from the oblique case of Middle High German ort in the sense ‘tip extremity’ (see Ort ) + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. In the Austrian Tyrol the name denoted a person who worked in a salt mine.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022