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There are approximately 1,014 people named Haire in the UK. That makes it the 7,138th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 16 are named Haire.

Region of origin

British Isles

Country of origin

Ireland

Language of origin

Gaelic

Religion of origin

Christian

Classification

Celtic


Related and similar surnames

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The Haire surname in historical dictionaries

Patronymica Britannica (1860)

HAIRE. This Irish surname, previously to the year 1770, was written OTIehir. The traditions of the family deduce them from the race of Fingal in the third cent., but historical evidence carries them back no further than the reign of Edw. III., 1365, when the representation of the family vested in the O'Haitchir or 0"Hehir, chiefs of Hy Flancha and Hy Cormac, in the barony of Islands, co. Clare. In O'Connor's map of Ireland published about lG-10, a large portion of that county still bore the

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

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