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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name from Old French guyour ‘guide’ (see Guy 2).
  • Americanized spelling of German Geyer.
  • Swiss German : from a contraction of the expression gut Jahr (‘good year’) which as a greeting in rural Switzerland meant ‘I wish you a good harvest this year’.

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