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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Scottish : nickname or occupational name for someone who hunted hares, or who was thought to resemble a breed of dog used in hunting hares.
  • English and Scottish : nickname for someone thought to resemble a harrier, a kind of hawk, Middle English harrower.
  • English and Scottish : nickname for a raider or plunderer, from an agent noun derived from Middle English herian, Old English her(g)ian ‘to harry’, ‘plunder’, ‘ravage’.

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