The leer Surname
leer Name Meaning and History
- Dutch: from a reduced form of the personal name Hilaire (Latin Hilarius).
- Danish: habitational name from a place so called in northern Germany, near Oldenburg.
- Danish: from ler ‘clay’, possibly a topographic name for someone who lived on clay or an occupational name for someone who extracted or used it.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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