Family name origins & meanings
- German (of Slavic origin) : habitational name for someone from a place called Peise near Königsberg in former East Prussia (present name: Kaliningrad, an exclave of Russia).
- German (of Slavic origin) : occupational name from a derivative of Polish pisarz ‘scribe’, ‘clerk’ or a cognate in some other Slavic language.
- German : variant of Beiser.
- English : variant spelling of Peyser.