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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Shire

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Irish (County Limerick; of English origin) : from Old English scīr, Middle English s(c)hire ‘shire’, perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by the meeting place of a shire.

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