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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 357,925 Historical Documents with Geyer on Ancestry
- 162,493 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 39,474 Census and Voter Lists
- 19,060 Military Records
- 9,112 Immigration Records
- 127,786 Member Trees
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Number of Geyer families
 131 - 260  44 - 130 |
 1 - 43  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Geyer families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Geyer families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Geyer census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Geyer census records
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- All Geyer
- 171
- Confederate
- 17
- Union
- 154
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