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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : either a variant of Gehr or from a short form of a Slavic personal name beginning with jar- ‘young’, ‘robust’.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of three farmsteads named Jar, from Old Norse jaðarr ‘edge’, ‘rim’ (under a mountain or beside water).

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