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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish and Manx : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Guaire (see McQuarrie).
  • English (of Norman origin) : nickname for a thickset or portly man, from Anglo-Norman French quaré ‘square’. Compare Carré (see Carre).
  • English : from Middle English quarey ‘quarry’, a topographic name for someone who lived near a stone quarry, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in one.

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