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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Czech and Slovak : status name for a steward, bailiff, or tenant farmer, or a village headman, from German Meyer 1.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from a variant of the personal name Meyer (see Meyer 2).
  • German : variant of Macher 2.

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