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The dyer Surname

dyer Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a dyer of cloth, Middle English dyer (from Old English deag ‘dye’; the verb is a back-formation from the agent noun). This surname also occurs in Scotland, but Lister is a more common equivalent there.
  2. Irish (Counties Sligo and Roscommon): usually a short form of MacDyer, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Duibhir ‘son of Duibhir’, a short form of 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 dyer Families in the US in 1920
Number of dyer families
 256-509
 86-255		 1-85
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Susan Dyer/Dowell of Mississippi rjturner 0
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Dyer family site... Rosalie Dyer Ferry 30
Lillian L. Dyer of San Marcos, TX 1917 drbrownlee 0
Tennessee Dyers Sharon Harris 85
Mary Ann Dyer b1801 Weeting, Norfolk (England) arogadog 0
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Lonnie Carl Dyer Grace Prater 2
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