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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Herr 1 and 2.
  • French (Herré) : habitational name from a place in Landes. The place name is a Gascon form of Ferré, ultimately a derivative of Latin ferrarium ‘worker in iron’, ‘smith’.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from either of two farmsteads, so named either from Old Norse herað ‘settlement’, ‘settled district’, or from Old Norse hár ‘high’ + ‘ridge’.

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