Orange Family History
Orange Name Meaning
French: habitational name from one of the many places called Orange in France perhaps most prominently Orange in Vaucluse from which the noble House of Orange took its name. It is also found in England as a surname of Huguenot origin. English: usually a variant of Orridge either from the Middle English personal name Ordrich Orrich (Old English Ordrīc from ord ‘point spear’ + rīc ‘power realm’) with post-medieval voicing of the final consonant to give Orridge or from a de-aspirated form of Horridge and Horwich (both habitational names from any of the places called Horwich in Lancashire and Derbyshire) with the addition of an intrusive -n-. English: from the Middle English (Old French) female personal name Orenge probably a variant of Orege (from Latin Oregia) with Anglo-Norman French intrusive -n- before -g- as in English passenger for Old French passager.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
