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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for an old man or someone with prematurely gray hair, from Middle English hore, Old English hār ‘gray’.
  • English : topographic name for someone who lived by a slope or shore, Old English ōra, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, as for example Oare in Kent, Berkshire, and Wiltshire.

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