Meyer Family History
Meyer Name Meaning
German and Dutch: from Middle High German meier, a
status name for a steward, bailiff, or overseer, which later came to
be used also to denote a tenant farmer, which is normally the sense in
the many compound surnames formed with this term as a second element.
Originally it denoted a village headman (ultimately from Latin
maior ‘greater’, ‘superior’).Jewish (Ashkenazic): from
the Yiddish personal name Meyer (from Hebrew Meir
‘enlightener’, a derivative of Hebrew or ‘light’).Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meidhir, from
meidhir ‘mirth’.Danish: variant spelling of
Meier 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Meyer
Name Distribution of Meyer Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Meyer families
 2,029 - 4,056  677 - 2,028 |
 1 - 676  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Meyer families
|
257 - 512 86 - 256 |
1 - 85 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Meyer families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Meyer census records
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Meyer Family Origin
Meyer Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Meyer
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Meyer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Meyer census records
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Meyer Civil War Service Records
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