Dürr Family Crest & Name History

The last name Dürr is one of the recorded forms of Dorr, a German family name. Its meaning, shared with Dorr, is “A descendant of Isidor, or a thin, dry person”. Spelled with “ü” instead of “o”, Dürr shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Dürr ranked 5,057 in the 2010 US Census, with 6,937 people answering to the name. French birth records list 1,692 children named Dürr between 1891 and 2000.

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