Spier Family History
Spier Name Meaning
English: from an agent derivative of Middle English
(e)spi(en) ‘to watch’, hence an occupational name for a lookout
or watchman, or a nickname for a nosy person.Scottish:
variant spelling of Spear.German: nickname for a
small person, from Middle Low German spir ‘trifle’, ‘small
piece’.German: habitational name from any of several places named
Spier, notably the city in the Palatinate, now spelled Speyer (see
Speyer, Spiering).Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of
Spiro.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Spier
Name Distribution of Spier Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Spier families
 35 - 67  12 - 34 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Spier families
|
22 - 42 8 - 21 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Spier families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Spier census records
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Spier Family Origin
Spier Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Spier
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Spier Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Spier census records
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Spier Civil War Service Records
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