as a Last Name
- 1,509
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Ore
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of the places called Oare in Berkshire, Kent, and Wiltshire, or Ore in East Sussex, all named with Old English ōra ‘shore’, ‘hill-slope’, ‘flat-topped ridge’. It may also be a topographic name from the same element, though Reaney and Wilson consider that in general this would have had an initial N-. Compare Noah 2.
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,509
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Carolina
- has the most people named Ore per capita
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