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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : occupational name for a keeper of geese, oier.
  • Dutch ((de) Loyer) : occupational name for a tanner, Dutch looier.
  • A bearer of the name from Anjou, France, was in Quebec City before 1653.

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