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Here

Discussion of the name

Here is an Old English masculine name, presumably a shortened form of names in here- ‘troop, army, host’ such as Herefrith or Hereweald.  Because the DB form Her lacks the final vowel von Feiltzen (1937: 289) preferred a derivation from Old Norse hjorr ‘sword’, but reasons are given under Here 2 for rejecting this interpretation and preferring the Old English explanation.

The are no pre-Domesday occurrences of this name in the PASE corpus.

Bibliography

von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Her

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Her (Hiorr)

  Phillimore edition: Her

  Alecto edition: Her

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Dorset	Phil. ref. 47,12	Vill Herston	DB Spelling Her	Holder 1066 Here 'of Herston'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Arundel	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.67	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Here 2 - Here ‘of Herston’ (Dors.), fl. 1066