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Updated April 17, 2022

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech : topographic name from hora ‘mountain’, ‘hill’, earlier ‘forest’.
  • Irish : variant of O’Hara.
  • Indian (Panjab) : Sikh name based on the name of a Jat tribe.
  • Japanese : ‘preserve good’. The name is Ryūkyūan in origin and is also pronounced Bora and Yasura.

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