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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : from the Older Scots personal name Ure, a variant of Ivor.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from a place in Hordaland, probably named in Old Norse Urðvin, a compound of urð ‘scree’, ‘rock-strewn slope’ + vin ‘meadow’.

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