So this came as a surprise to me, but I heard it from an older member of the family as well as younger members.
A branch of the Quintanilla family in Hågat is known as the Orong family.
The story is that the patriarch of this family was a carpentry supervisor. It had to have been during the early American administration for the explanation to work, since it is based on English.
When he would go around and inspect the work of the carpenters, I assume on military projects, he would tell them, "All wrong, all wrong, all wrong," when he disapproved of their work.
"All wrong" became Orong in Chamorro.
The workers said, "This guy always says 'all wrong,'" and they started calling him Orong.
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