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Bier Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German
bier ‘beer’, German Bier, Yiddish bir, a
metonymic occupational name for a brewer of beer or a tavern owner, or
in some cases perhaps a nickname for a beer drinker.South
German: from the short form of a personal name formed with Old High
German bero ‘bear’.Northern English and Scottish:
variant of Byers.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Bier Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bier families
 44 - 86  15 - 43 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bier families
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bier families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bier census records
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Bier Family Origin
Bier Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Bier
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Bier Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bier census records
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Bier Civil War Service Records
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