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Meier Name Meaning
German, Dutch, Czech, Slovak (Majer), and Polish: status name for a tenant
farmer, steward, overseer, or village headman, a variant spelling of
German Meyer 1.Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant spelling of
the personal name Meyer (see Meyer 2).Danish:
occupational name from meiere ‘reaper’, ‘harvester’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Meier
Name Distribution of Meier Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Meier families
 168 - 333  57 - 167 |
 1 - 56  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Meier families
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46 - 90 16 - 45 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Meier families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Meier census records
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Meier Family Origin
Meier Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Meier
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Meier Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Meier census records
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Meier Civil War Service Records
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