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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : variant of Dury 2.
  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhruis (see Doris 1).
  • Scottish (Kincardineshire) : possibly a habitational name from Dores in Perthshire, or from Durris in Kincardineshire, now in Aberdeenshire.
  • Czech (Moravian) (Duriš)and Slovak (Ďuriš) : patronymic from a Moravian and Slovak form of the personal name Jiři, vernacular form of Greek Geōrgios (see George).

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