Ormroyd is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 7 characters long in length.
Ormroyd is the variation of Ormerod. The first syllable Orme is a common Saxon and Norman name; the second syllable Rode, (pronounced Royde in Yorkshire) is correctly explained by Dr. Whitaker (Hist. of Whalley) as the preterite of "rid,"-a ridding, clearing, or essart-locus exsertus. It occurs in the neighbourhood of English forests and chases from Yorkshire to Devonshire. The import of the name, then, is the Rode of Orme, the land reclaimed by him or his predecessors, from the forest. The local name was assumed in or before the reign of Henry III. Ormerod is in the parish of Whalley, county of Lancaster. - Orme rod's Parentalia.
Ormroyd is a variation of Ormerod. Elm's assart.