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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from ours ‘bear’ (Latin ursus), hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble a bear (e.g. a large, lumbering person, or an unsociable one), or local name for someone who lived in a house distinguished with the sign of a bear.
  • French : from the old personal name Ours, not common, derived from Latin Ursus, which was the name of some early saints in Gaul.

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