Family name origins & meanings
- English : topographic name for someone who lived by the seashore, Middle English schore.
- English : topographic name for someone who lived on or by a bank or steep slope, Old English scora. There are minor places named with this word in Lancashire and West Yorkshire, and the surname may also be a habitational name from these.
- Americanized spelling of Ashkenazic Jewish S(c)hor(r) or Szor, variants of Schauer.