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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern English : topographic name for someone who lived by a cattleshed, Middle English byre, or a habitational name with the same meaning, from any of several places named with Old English b̄re, for example Byers Green in County Durham or Byres near Edinburgh.
  • Americanized spelling of German Bayers.

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