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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by the seashore, Middle English schore.
  2. English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a bank or steep slope, Old English scora. There are minor places named with this word in Lancashire and West Yorkshire, and the surname may also be a habitational name from these.
  3. Americanized spelling of Ashkenazic Jewish S(c)hor(r) or Szor, variants of Schauer.

This name appears in the following lists: Opera Singers