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.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.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.English:
topographic name from an Old English hær ‘rock’, ‘heap of
stones’, ‘tumulus’.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)’. MTMWhole entry revised and reordered. One English sense
moved to Hair.
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