Nohr Family History

Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead named Nor from Old Norse nór ‘narrows’ denoting either a narrow passage in a fjord or lake or a short stream leading from a lake into a river.

German: probably a habitational name from Nohra in Thuringia originally named with elements meaning ‘marshy stream’; or in Holstein a topographic name from Nohr ‘stagnant water lake’.

German (Nöhr): from a shortened form of medieval personal name Apollinaris (a derivative of Greek Apollōn).

This name was borne by a Christian martyr whose cult was centered in Remagen (Rhineland) where it is found in old forms such as Pollenoris Bolinoris.