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The shirer Surname

shirer Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish and northern English: variant of Shearer.
  2. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): occupational name for a barber, a Yiddish dialect variant of Sherer 2.

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Distribution of shirer Families in the US in 1920
Number of shirer families
 14-26
 5-13
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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