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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived by a body of water, Middle Dutch mere ‘lake’.
  • Jewish : variant of Meyer 2.
  • Muslim : from a Persian title, a shortened form of Arabic amīr ‘prince’, ‘commander’ (see Amir). This name is found throughout the Indian subcontinent.

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