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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and English : topographic name for someone who lived by a dam or weir on a river. Compare Ware.
  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Mhaoir ‘son of the steward’ (see McNair).
  • Irish : Anglicized form, based on an erroneous translation (as if from Gaelic cora ‘weir’, ‘stepping stones’), of various Gaelic names such as Ó Corra and Ó Comhraidhe (see Corr and Curry).

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