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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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