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).