Family name origins & meanings
- French : from ours ‘bear’ (Latin ursus), hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble a bear (e.g. a large, lumbering person, or an unsociable one), or local name for someone who lived in a house distinguished with the sign of a bear.
- French : from the old personal name Ours, not common, derived from Latin Ursus, which was the name of some early saints in Gaul.