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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (from Belarus) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Sore (from the Hebrew female personal name Sara ‘Princess’), with the Slavic possessive suffix -in.
  • French : from a diminutive of sor (see Sorel).

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