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hare Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish (Ulster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÍr, meaning ‘long-lasting’. In Ireland this name is found in County Armagh; it has also long been established in Scotland.
  2. Irish: Anglicized form of Ó hAichir ‘descendant of Aichear’, a personal name derived from the epithet aichear ‘fierce’, ‘sharp’. In Ireland this name is more commonly Anglicized as O’Hehir.
  3. English: nickname for a swift runner (possibly a speedy messenger) or a timorous person, from Middle English hare ‘hare’. However, the surname Ayer and its variants was sometimes recorded as Hare.
  4. English: topographic name from an Old English hær ‘rock’, ‘heap of stones’, ‘tumulus’.
  5. French: according to Morlet, an occupational name for a huntsman, from a medieval French call used to urge on the hounds, or, in the form Haré, from the past participle of harer ‘to excite, stir up (hounds in pursuit of a quarry)’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hare Families in the US in 1920
Number of hare families
 143-283
 48-142		 1-47
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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