Last name: NORRIS
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NORRIS : This last name is indexed 392,020 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
NORRIS : English:: 1: habitational name from Middle English norreis noreis norais ‘northerner’ (Anglo-Norman French noreis) used both of Norwegians and of inhabitants of northern England and Scotland.2: from the Middle English personal name Norreis derived from norreis ‘northerner’.3: variant of Nurse an occupational name for a wet-nurse or foster mother from Middle English norice nurice ‘nurse; foster parent’ (Old French norrice nurrice).
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