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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (of Slavic origin) : habitational name for someone from a place called Peise near Königsberg in former East Prussia (present name: Kaliningrad, an exclave of Russia).
  • German (of Slavic origin) : occupational name from a derivative of Polish pisarz ‘scribe’, ‘clerk’ or a cognate in some other Slavic language.
  • German : variant of Beiser.
  • English : variant spelling of Peyser.

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