What is the name meaning of MEYER. Phrases containing MEYER
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English : perhaps a habitational name from Rushmere in Suffolk, near Lowestoft, so named from Old English rysc ‘rushes’ + mere ‘pond’, ‘lake’.perhaps also an Americanized form of German Ruschmeier, a topographic name for a farmer who lived and farmed in an area where reeds grew (see Rusch 1 and Meyer).
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English : status name for a mayor, Middle English, Old French mair(e) (from Latin maior ‘greater’, ‘superior’; compare Mayor). In France the title denoted various minor local officials, and the same is true of Scotland (see Mair 1). In England, however, the term was normally restricted to the chief officer of a borough, and the surname may have been given not only to a citizen of some standing who had held this office, but also as a nickname to a pompous or officious person.German and Dutch : variant of Meyer 1.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Meyer 2.
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English : from the Norman personal name Malg(i)er, Maug(i)er, composed of the Germanic elements madal ‘council’ + gÄr, gÄ“er ‘spear’. The surname is now also established in Ulster.Hungarian : from a shortened form of majorosgazda (see Majoros), or a derivative of German Meyer 1.Polish, Czech, and Slovak : from the military rank major (derived from Latin maior ‘greater’), a word related to English mayor and the German surname Meyer.Catalan and southern French (Occitan) : from major ‘major’ (Latin maior ‘greater’), denoting a prominent or important person or the first-born son of a family.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant of Meyer 2.
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Hebrew American
Shining. Surname.
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Australian, Bengali, German, Hebrew, Indian
A Farmer; Bringer of Lighto; Shining; Giving Light; Glowing
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English (Kent)
English (Kent) : unexplained.perhaps an Americanized form of German Engemeyer, a topographic name for a tenant farmer who lived in a narrow place, i.e. a deep, narrow valley, from eng ‘narrow’ (see Enge) + Meyer ‘tenant farmer’.
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Hebrew
Variant spelling of Hebrew Meir, MEYER means "giving light."
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English
English : patronymic from Mayer 1.German : patronymic from Mayer 2.Dutch : variant of Meyer 1 and 3.
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English
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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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : variant spelling of Mayer 1.Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic) : nickname for an older man or a distinguishing epithet for the elder of two bearers of the same personal name, from Spanish mayor ‘older’ (Latin maior (natus), literally ‘greater (by birth)’).Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic) : occupational or status name, from major ‘governor’, ‘chief’.Catalan : variant spelling of Major.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Meyer 2.
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