Last name: MUIR
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MUIR : This last name is indexed 164,530 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MUIR : Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived on a moor from Older Scots muir ‘moor’ (an expanse of bare wild upland country). There has been some confusion with Mure.
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