as a Last Name
- 3,260
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Wear
Meaning & Origins
English (Northumbria): 1. topographic name for someone who lived by the Wear river in northern England. The river name is ancient, occuring in the form Vedra in Ptolemy's Geographia; it is probably a Celtic word meaning ‘water’. 2. topographic name for someone who lived near a dam or weir, a variant spelling of Ware 1, or a habitational name from a place called Weare, in Devon and Somerset, from Old English wær, wer ‘weir’.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 3,260
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Tennessee
- has the most people named Wear per capita
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