Hair Family History
Hair Name Meaning
Irish and Scottish: mainly Scottish form of Irish Ó hÍr Ó hÉir ‘descendant of Ír’. The usual Irish Anglicization is O'Hare (see Hare ) or Haire . English: nickname from Middle English her har ‘hair’ (Old English hǣr) presumably denoting someone with luxuriant or otherwise noteworthy hair. Scottish: variant of Ayre (see Ayer ). English: variant of Hare . Possibly an Americanized form of Dutch and German Haar .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022