
Horta : Catalan and Portuguese: from horta ‘garden’ (from Latin hortus) hence a topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosed garden or a metonymic occupational name for a gardener.
Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
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