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dwyer Name Meaning and History

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhuidhir, a variant of Ó Duibhidhir (see Diver) ‘descendant of Duibhuidhir’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘dark’, ‘black’ + odhar ‘sallow’, ‘tawny’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dwyer Families in the US in 1920
Number of dwyer families
 609-1216
 204-608		 1-203
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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