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Origin Of The Surname Shearer
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Meaning Of The Surname Shearer
Sheep Shearer
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Interesting
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Shearer
Shearer is an occupational surname. These occupational surnames were convenient ways of distinguishing a person as many occupations were only held by one person in a small town, and usually the descendants of the bearer took on the occupation. Shearer comes from the Old English ‘sceran’ meaning ‘shear’. It would have been given as an occupational surname to a person who sheared sheep, or who used shears while making fabrics. Alan Shearer the English footballer is a famous bearer of this surname. |
Shearer Statistics
Shearer is the number 1605 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 6,418 share the surname Shearer in the UK.
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