Irish and Manx: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac
Guaire (see McQuarrie).English (of Norman origin):
nickname for a thickset or portly man, from Anglo-Norman French
quaré ‘square’. Compare Carré (see
Carre).English: from Middle English quarey
‘quarry’, a topographic name for someone who lived near a stone
quarry, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in
one.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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