Last name origins & meanings:
- English: topographic name for someone who lived by the seashore, Middle English schore.
- 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.
- Americanized spelling of
Ashkenazic Jewish S(c)hor(r) or Szor, variants of
Schauer.
This name appears in the following lists:
Opera Singers
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