Dutch: variant of Horn.Americanized form of
Norwegian Øren, a habitational name from any of about thirty
farmsteads, mainly on the west coast of Norway, named Øyra, from
Old Norse eyrr ‘delta’, ‘sandbank’.Americanized
spelling of German Ohren.Jewish (Israeli):
ornamental name from Hebrew oren ‘pine tree’. In some cases it
may be a substitute for some original Ashkenazic name of similar sound
or meaning, e.g. Tannenbaum or Sosna.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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