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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Greek: Beauty
  2. Old English: Happy spear
  3. Scottish: Oak tree ford

First name variations: Adar, Adarah, Adare, Adarra, Adaire, Adara, Adar, Agar, Ager, Adger

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Scottish (Galloway) and northern Irish: from the Scottish personal name Adair, also spelled Edʒear, a form of Edgar.
  2. James Adair (c.1709–c.1783) was an Indian trader in SC from 1735; he was born in Co. Antrim, northern Ireland. A certain Baron William Adair, from Scotland, also settled in SC at around the same period.

This name appears in the following lists: Poets