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Dier

Feminine
Rare

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Dyer.
  • Dutch : reduced form of the French personal name Didier.
  • South German : from Middle High German dier ‘wild animal’, ‘game’; probably a metonymic occupational name for a hunter, or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by a sign depicting a deer.

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