Where does the surname "Gort" originate from?

Question:im argentinian and my grandfather was from spain, but the surname doesnt sound spanish, am i right? could it be Celt?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: im argentinian and my grandfather was from spain, but the surname doesnt sound spanish, am i right? could it be Celt?

among the records held by the LDS church, are extracted records ie, taken directly from old church records, as opposed to submitted records. These can be good clues. Scanning those, there was ONE item from Spain (in the 1600's). There was a large clump from the Netherlands, some from Prussia, and various other locations. I did not see France among those entries.
What you can wind up with, is nothing more than a huge game of darts, hoping that you hit the bullseye.
Surname origins are interesting... if and when it can be PROVEN. And for many names, that simply does not occur. Or, it is so far back that it really winds up being meaningless, compared to who your ancestors really were, and the lives that they led. 99% of new researchers stopping by here, are convinced that the origin of their surname is their heritage. In fact... your heritage is ALL of your ancestors. Of 8 gr grandparents, only one of them has the name. Next generation, you have 16 gr greats, but still only one with your last name.
Not that you have to.. but I think you gain much more by actually tracing your ancestors and finding out who they were, using historical records. Your grandfather may have been born in Spain... what about his parents?
Normally, I am familiar with US sources, but I highly reccommend www.cyndislist.com as the main collection of online resources. That includes beginner tutorials as well as scams to look out for; and locality sources too.
Don't expect it all to be online... for whatever reason, more persons in the US seem to be doing genealogy, so there is more available. Offline, the LDS church has microfilmed hundreds of thousands of original records from all over the world... which you can order for a small fee, and search at one of their family history centers. Pre-internet, that was THE main source to access records without having to leave home.
Another place is www.rootsweb.com which sponsors free email discussion lists for most surnames and localities. This allows you to network with persons working in the same sources, and can offer great tips from their experience.
The whole foundation of genealogy is using records to find your family. It is really challenging and satisfying.

Here's an Irish Gort - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gort

There's always the robot, Gort, but probably without descendents.

And there's the Czech Grandmaster Hort, transliterated Gort in Russian.

I feel so helpless!

Gort
French: from Old French gort (Gaulish gorto), denoting a particular kind of trap placed on a river bed to catch fish; the surname may have arisen as a topographic name or as a habitational name from any of numerous settlements named Le Gort in, for example, Charente, Eure-et-Loir, Loir-et-Cher.
Variant of French Gard.
hope this helps.