Family name origins & meanings
- English : occupational name for a bookbinder, from Anglo-Norman French liur.
- English : possibly a topographic name (recorded in 1332 as le Lyghere) for someone who lived in a woodland clearing, from a derivative of Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
- German : short form of a Germanic personal name formed with liut ‘people’, ‘tribe’ + hari ‘army’.
- German : possibly a topographic name formed with the element lir ‘swamp’, ‘bog’, or a habitational name from Lier, named with this word.
- Dutch : habitational name from Lier, in the Belgian province of Antwerp.
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named with the indefinite plural form of li ‘mountain slope’, ‘hillside’ (see Li 4).