English: habitational name from any of the places called Oare
in Berkshire, Kent, and Wiltshire, or Ore in East Sussex, all named
with Old English ora ‘shore’, ‘hill-slope’, ‘flat-topped
ridge’. It may also be a topographic name from the same element,
though Reaney and Wilson consider that in general this would have had
an initial N-. Compare Noah 2.Scottish:
possibly from the Sussex place name.
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