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Dwyer Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhuidhir, a
variant of Ó Duibhidhir (see Diver) ‘descendant of
Duibhuidhir’, a personal name composed of the elements
dubh ‘dark’, ‘black’ + odhar ‘sallow’, ‘tawny’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Dwyer Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dwyer families
 609 - 1,216  204 - 608 |
 1 - 203  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Dwyer families
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270 - 538 91 - 269 |
1 - 90 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dwyer families
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17 - 31 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Dwyer Family Origin
Dwyer Immigration Information
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Dwyer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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