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The ware Surname

ware Name Meaning and History

  1. topographic name for someone who lived by a dam or weir on a river (Old English wær, wer), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, such as Ware in Hertfordshire.
  2. nickname for a cautious person, from Middle English war(e) ‘wary’, ‘prudent’ (Old English (ge)wær).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The ware name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the ware family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of ware Families in the US in 1920
Number of ware families
 302-601
 101-301		 1-100
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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