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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) and French : nickname for a soldier or for a belligerent person, from Old French (de la) werre, (de la) guerre ‘(of the) war’. Compare Warr.
  • English : habitational name from Delaware in Brasted, Kent, named with Old English wer ‘weir’.

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