Given name & surname · also Middle English
Storrs
“brushwood”
Storrs is a surname from Middle English, ultimately from Old Norse.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Storrs goes back to Old Norse storð, meaning “brushwood.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Storrs comes from Middle English, and ultimately from Old Norse.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Middle English storth, from Old Norse storð (“brushwood”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Storrs’s family of names
In English usage, Storrs as a surname has a related form in STORR. In Greek usage, Storrs as a surname is a transliteration of Στορρς.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Storrs
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