The weir Surname
weir Name Meaning and History
- Scottish and English: topographic name for someone who lived by a dam or weir on a river. Compare Ware.
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Mhaoir ‘son of the steward’ (see McNair).
- Irish: Anglicized form, based on an erroneous translation (as if from Gaelic cora ‘weir’, ‘stepping stones’), of various Gaelic names such as Ó Corra and Ó Comhraidhe (see Corr and Curry).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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