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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by a swamp, a variant of Haar 3.
  • German : altered spelling of Hähr (common in Württemberg), from Middle High German heher ‘jay’ (the bird).
  • German : Alternatively, it may be a topographic name from Middle Low German hare ‘hill’.

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