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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly East Anglia and the southeast) : from a Norman personal name composed of the Germanic elements hari, heri ‘army’ + māri, mēri ‘famous’.
  • English : habitational name from Haremere Hall in Etchingham, Sussex, which is named from Old English hār ‘gray’ + mere ‘pool’.

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