The squire Surname
squire Name Meaning and History
English: status name from Middle English squyer ‘esquire’,
‘a man belonging to the feudal rank immediately below that of knight’
(from Old French esquier ‘shield bearer’). At first it denoted
a young man of good birth attendant on a knight, or by extension any
attendant or servant, but by the 14th century the meaning had been
generalized, and referred to social status rather than age. By the
17th century, the term denoted any member of the landed gentry, but
this is unlikely to have influenced the development of the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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