Squire Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Arms linked to Squires and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Meaning of the name

Some records give Squires; others give Squire. Both point to the same English family name. The family name meaning is “Squire”, the same as for Squires.

Without the “s” of Squires, Squire is a simpler written form of the same name. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The same family of names includes Squier. 5,349 Americans were listed as Squire in the 2010 census. That is enough to place it in the top 10,000 American surnames.

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