Type Surname
Usage English
Meaning & History
Possibly from Middle English cuir meaning “attention, heed, diligence, or care.”
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Meaning & History
Shortened form of Mccure.
Type Surname (from occupation & from nickname)
Usage French
Meaning & History
From cure meaning “vicarage” or “presbytery,” possibly applied as a nickname to an employee or from a homonymous word meaning “healing” or “cure” possibly used as a metonymic occupational name for a healer.
Meaning & History
From curé which means “(parish) priest” used as a metonymic occupational name for a servant in the household of a priest or applied as an ironic nickname.