Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant spelling of Myer.
- Spanish : habitational name from a village in Santander province, so named from mies ‘ripe grain’, ‘harvest time’ (Latin messis aestiva ‘summer harvest’).
- Dutch : nickname from mier ‘ant’; perhaps denoting an industrious person.
- Dutch and Belgian (van de Mier) : topographic name from a Brabantine form of moere ‘bog’, ‘marsh’ (modern moeras), or a habitational name from Moere in West Flanders.