Hare Family History
- Hare Name Meaning
- Irish (Ulster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÍr, meaning ‘long-lasting’. In Ireland this name is found in County Armagh; it has also long been established in Scotland. Irish: Anglicized form of Ó hAichir ‘descendant of Aichear’, a personal name derived from the epithet aichear ‘fierce’, ‘sharp’. In Ireland this name is more commonly Anglicized as O’Hehir. English: nickname for a swift runner (possibly a speedy messenger) or a timorous person, from Middle English hare ‘hare’. However, the surname Ayer and its variants was sometimes recorded as Hare. English: topographic name from an Old English hær ‘rock’, ‘heap of stones’, ‘tumulus’. French: according to Morlet, an occupational name for a huntsman, from a medieval French call used to urge on the hounds, or, in the form Haré, from the past participle of harer ‘to excite, stir up (hounds in pursuit of a quarry)’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,106,865 Historical Documents with Hare on Ancestry
- 291,859 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 235,752 Census and Voter Lists
- 30,475 Military Records
- 21,459 Immigration Records
- 527,320 Member Trees
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Number of Hare families
 401 - 799  134 - 400 |
 1 - 133  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hare families
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97 - 192 33 - 96 |
1 - 32 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Hare census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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