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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German kirche ‘church’ + meier ‘steward’ or ‘tenant farmer’, hence an occupational name for an administrator of church property, the tenant farmer of a church, or a farm laborer on church land, a glebe farmer.

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