The harbour Surname
harbour Name Meaning and History
- English: metonymic occupational name for a keeper of a lodging house, from late Old English herebeorg ‘shelter’, ‘lodging’ (from here ‘army’ + beorg ‘shelter’). (The change of -er- to -ar- is a regular phonetic process in Old French and Middle English.)
- Variant of French Arbour.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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