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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : patronymic meaning ‘son of the mayor’ (see Mayer 1).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : patronymic from the personal Meyer (see Meyer 2).
  • American form of German Meyer, with excrescent -s.
  • Irish : variant of Meyer 3.

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