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Name Shorter
Gender Masculine
Usage English (British, Rare, Archaic), English (Puritan, ?)
Edit Status Status2a. listed usages are verified

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