Given name & surname

Wares

“horse pond”

Wares is a surname.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Wares is a form of Ware. As an English surname, Ware goes back to Middle English wayour, meaning “horse pond.”

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Where it comes from

Wares is a form of Ware. Ware has more than one origin: as an English surname, it comes from Middle English wayour; as a West Flemish surname, it comes from Middle Dutch weder.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wares’s family of names

In English usage, Wares as a surname has a related form in WARE.

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