English
Starmer
Starmer may come from Old English mōr ‘moor, mountain’.
- Old Englishc. 450–1150mōr‘moor, mountain’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2025Starmer
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Old Englishc. 450–1150mōr‘moor, mountain’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2025Starmer
Earliest quotation: 2025, Reuters, UK teenager jailed for minimum of 52 years for Southport gir: “A British teenager who killed three young girls at…”
The story
A habitational surname derived from Stermore, a settlement, no longer extant, near Stowe-by-Chartley (Stafford, Staffordshire, England). The first element of the toponym is obscure, but the second element derives from the Old English mōr (‘moor, mountain’).uncertain The source flags this step as uncertain.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *mer- ‘sea, lake, wetland’
remember, murder, nightmare, mortality, mortal, submarine, maritime, mortar, morbid, mara, muller, mort, morn, ambrosia, mariner, moribund, marinara, cormorant, 59 more
through Proto-Indo-European *móri ‘sea’
march, marine, moor, mare, marshy, marinate, maar, 16 more
through Proto-Germanic *mari ‘sea, ocean’
Today it means
name A surname.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old English mōr / Starmer