Last name: LOR

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LOR : This last name is indexed 45,733 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

LOR : 1: Southeast Asian (Hmong): from the name of the Lor or Lo clan of the Hmong people in Laos China and Vietnam; in Chinese characters it is written 羅 (see Luo 1 compare 3 below). Compare Lo 11.2: Southeast Asian (Iu Mien): from the name of the Lor or Lo clan of the Iu Mien people from Laos. Compare Law 6 and Lo 12.3: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 羅 based on its Cantonese pronunciation. See Luo 1.4: Catalan: Castilianized form of Llor a nickname from llor ‘laurel-colored’.5: Flemish and Dutch: variant of Loor.

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