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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Hebrew shor ‘ox’, perhaps taken by bearers of the personal name Joseph because the Biblical character of this name is compared to an ox in Deuteronomy 33:17: ‘His glory is like the firstling of his bullock’.

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