Nabors
A surname most likely from a place-name form of Nabors, a spelling variant tied to neighboring or local geographic names.
The #6,017 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 53,995 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Nabors is usually understood as an English surname built from a place-name or location-based phrase, most likely connected with a variant form of "neighbors" or a similarly pronounced local name in older English usage. In surnames, such forms often began as identifiers for someone who lived near a boundary, next door, or in a particular small settlement. The spelling has likely been stabilized in America, where surname forms often diverged from older British spellings.
History
The surname is chiefly found in the United States today, where it appears in family lines that may descend from older English settlers or from later spelling simplification. As with many less common surnames, the exact path from the original local expression to the modern fixed spelling is not always easy to trace. The American distribution suggests a surname that became hereditary in English-speaking communities and then persisted in a relatively small number of family branches.
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Fun fact
In many English surnames, a spelling that looks unusual today may preserve an old pronunciation or a local dialect form rather than a separate root.