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hayer Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Ayer.
  2. English: topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure, Middle English hay (see Hay 1) + the suffix -er(e) denoting an inhabitant.
  3. French: occupational name for a warder of woodland, from an agent derivative of Old French haye ‘hedge’, ‘enclosed forest’.
  4. South German: from an agent derivative of Middle High German heien ‘to guard or protect’, hence an occupational name for a warden of woodland or crops.
  5. Indian (Panjab): Sikh name based on the name of a Jat clan, also called Her.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hayer Families in the US in 1920
Number of hayer families
 108-213
 37-107		 1-36
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Catherine (Hayer) HIGGINS, Hyde Park, Mass. - Death Notice masspike13 0
joe hayer paducah photographer 1933 Allan Beecham 0
henrietta hayer salmasmcin4943 6
John and Anna Hayer Aiko Timmer 0
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Alexander Kaercher MOENSHEIM GERMANY dCHRISTIAN 0
Albert HAYER, Benton County, Oregon, born about 1875 B_Gripenstraw 0
Josepha Barbara Hayer LYNN 0
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