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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish or English (mainly northern Ireland) : unexplained.
  • Dutch : shortened form of van Beers, a habitational name from any of the places called Beers in Friesland, Overijssel, North Brabant, and near Antwerp.
  • German : variant of Baer.

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