Durie Family History
Durie Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Durie a place in Scoonie (Fife) named from Gaelic dobhar ‘stream’ + the locative suffix -ach. Scottish: from the Middle English female personal name Derith Dereth (Old English Dēorgȳth from dēor ‘fierce’ or dēore ‘dear’ + gȳth ‘battle’). French (mainly northern; also Durié): variant of Durier (and in North America an altered form of this) itself an altered form of Duriez a topographic name with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’ from Old French ries ‘uncultivated land’; or a habitational name for someone from Le Riez the name of several places in the north of France. Compare Duree Duryea and Duryee .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022