Shore Family History
Shore Name Meaning
English: from Middle English s(c)hore ‘shore bank coast steep slope cliff’ (Old English scora). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived near such a feature or in Lancashire and Yorkshire especially habitational from a place so named such as Shore in Rochdale (Lancashire) or Shore in Todmorden (Yorkshire). In southwestern England the name is probably a variant of Score which shares the same etymology. Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schor Schorr or Szor variants of Schauer . Americanized form of French Giard reflecting the characteristic Canadian and American French rounding of the -ard ending. Compare Shor .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022