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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : occupational name for a maker and seller of spurs, bits, and other metal attachments to harness and tackle, from Anglo-Norman French lorenier, loremier (an agent derivative of Old French lorain ‘tackle’, ‘harness’).

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