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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic occupational name for a wire drawer, from Middle English wīr ‘wire’.
  • English : topographic name for someone who lived where bog myrtle grew, Old English wīr.
  • English : habitational name from Wyre Forest in Hereford, Worcestershire, and Shropshire, probably named from a Celtic river name meaning ‘winding river’.

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