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myer Name Meaning and History

  1. occupational name from Old French mire ‘physician’.
  2. topographic name from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr) .
  3. variant of Mayer 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of myer Families in the US in 1840
Number of myer families
 34-65
 12-33
 1-11
 0
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