Given name & surname · also Norman
Warr
“warrior”
Warr is a surname from Norman, ultimately from Old French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Warr goes back to Old French werreur, meaning “warrior.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Warr comes from Norman, and ultimately from Old French.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Warr’s family of names
In English usage, Warr as a surname shares a linguistic root with the French form GUERRE. In English usage, Warr as a surname has a related form in WARE.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
If you love Warr, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Wass
Wass is a surname from Norman.
—
Wallace
“foreign, Celtic” · “a Welshman; a man from the south”
98% boys · 2% girls
Wishart
Wishart is a surname from Anglo-Norman, ultimately from Old French.
60% boys · 40% girls
Wion
Wion is a surname from Norman, ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
—
De La Warr
“of the war”
—
Gwyer
Gwyer is a surname, possibly from Norman, ultimately from Germanic.
—
Woitin
Woitin is a masculine given name from Old French. It is used in Old Dutch.
>99% boys
Angier
“deity”
9% boys · 91% girls