Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : possibly a shortened form of MacMoyer, Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Mhaoir ‘son of the steward’, from maor ‘steward’.
  • Americanized form of German Meyer 1.
  • Dutch : occupational name for a mower or reaper.

Famous people with this last name

Stephen Moyer

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