Ortmeier
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Ortmeier
Frequency: (134)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: distinguishing name for a tenant farmer (see Meyer) who worked an outlying farm (see Ort 3).
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