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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead named from Old Norse nór ‘narrows’ (see Nohr 1), or, in Nordfjord, a compound of nór + á ‘small river’.
  • English : probably a habitational name from Nore in Surrey.

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