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The meier Surname

meier Name Meaning and History

  1. German, Dutch, Czech, Slovak (Majer), and Polish: status name for a tenant farmer, steward, overseer, or village headman, a variant spelling of German Meyer 1.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant spelling of the personal name Meyer (see Meyer 2).
  3. Danish: occupational name from meiere ‘reaper’, ‘harvester’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The meier name in History

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Distribution of meier Families in the US in 1920
Number of meier families
 168-333
 57-167		 1-56
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 264 - Messages: 578
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Cemetery Tombstone Reading, ND-Meier ccountr1 0
Meier donnajeanmeier 9
MEIER, Abraham c1810 Berks Co. PA PaulR32 1
Gustav Meier, WI stowe1 14
meier TeresaCarter09 2
Meier of Weiden ID Oberpfalz and also Waldkirch Bavaria WMeier9315 6
Gustave Meier Elliott Brown 2
MEIERs in Philadelphia, PA MeierCampbell12 1
Adelheid Meier kjsteinhaus 1
Felix Meier ancestry jullyn1 1
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