Shore Family History

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.