Shorter

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Gender Masculine

Usage English (British, Rare, Archaic), English (Puritan, ?)

Meaning & History

From the English word shorter. Charles W. Bardsley wrote in Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature (1880) that he found five instances of this name being given in English parish registers, citing two examples from 1689 and 1690, and compared it to Junior, Little and Young.

Added 3/25/2015 by LMS
Edited 7/1/2024 by SeaHorse15 and LMS