The aird Surname
aird Name Meaning and History
Scottish: habitational name from a place named with Gaelic
àird(e) ‘height’, ‘promontory’, or ‘headland’, from the
adjective àrd ‘high’, ‘lofty’, cognate with Latin
arduus ‘steep’, ‘difficult’. There is one such place near
Hurlford in Ayrshire, and another in Inch, Wigtownshire. See also
Ard.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| airds in the uk | Vanessa Aird | 28 |
| Airds in Chicago from mid-1800s |
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| Looking for relatives | David S. Aird | 3 |
| James Aird married Jean Wilson Jun 10 1773 Loudoun, Ayr, Scotland |
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| Aird (Lanark, Scotland, Alabama-Illinois) |
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