Geyer Family History
Geyer Name Meaning
German: nickname for a greedy or rapacious person, from Middle High
and Middle Low German gir(e) ‘large bird of prey’,
‘vulture’. Some early examples may be a habitational name from houses
bearing the sign of a bird of prey or from a place named Geyer near
Zwickau, in Saxony, which is probably ultimately from the same
word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Geyer
Name Distribution of Geyer Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Geyer families
 131 - 260  44 - 130 |
 1 - 43  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Geyer families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Geyer families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Geyer census records
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Geyer Family Origin
Geyer Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Geyer
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Geyer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Geyer census records
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