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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : occupational name for a sapper, one who laid mines during a siege.
  • French : nickname for someone with an untidy head of shaggy hair, from a diminutive of the past participle of Old French hurer ‘to bristle’, ‘ruffle’, ‘stand on end’ (a word of uncertain, possibly Germanic, origin).
  • French : ethnic name for a member of an American Indian people who lived around the shores of Lake Ontario.

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