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The huron Surname

huron Name Meaning and History

  1. occupational name for a sapper, one who laid mines during a siege.
  2. nickname for someone with an untidy head of shaggy hair, from a diminutive of the past participle of Old French hurer ‘to bristle’, ‘ruffle’, ‘stand on end’ (a word of uncertain, possibly Germanic, origin).
  3. ethnic name for a member of an American Indian people who lived around the shores of Lake Ontario.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of huron Families in the US in 1920
Number of huron families
 8-14
 3-7		 1-2
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Threads: 16 - Messages: 43
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Huron grandmother Mike Guerra 12
Huron Family aurorasummerfield 0
Ross-Hurin/Huron rfree46234 0
Freelove Huron Elston mavgirl1 7
FREELOVE HURON AND JACOB ELSTON alohakarenk 2
Huron Surname Origin? Aimee Huron 2
Pytha Huron JoanRAZ 1
DR. T.W.HURON OF SCOTT COUNTY, INDIANA diana6243 0
Huron, John Huron 1
Santa Huron Uriegas, San Antonio TX leslie 0
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