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I assume you are asking about the professional wrestler, in which case you really should be asking this on a discussion board made up of wrestling fans. A quick bit of Googling shows that Mr. Orton is a third-generation wrestler, grandson of Bob Orton. The surname Orton is English and goes back to one of several villages in England with names which originally meant "higher farmstead", "farmstead by a ridge or bank", or "Orri's farmstead", according to A Dictionary of English Place-Names by A. D. Mills. So unless the family name has been changed, Mr. Orton's original paternal ancestry is English. Of course his maternal ancestry could be very different, and you'd have to research his family tree to find that out.