Tyer Family History
Tyer Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a common pasture from Middle English tye ‘enclosed piece of land; large area of common pasture’ (see Tye ) + -er. English: occupational name for a maker of chests from an unrecorded Middle English teyer tyer an agent derivative of the word in 1 above which also had the sense ‘box coffer chest’. English: occasionally perhaps from the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Tiard Tiart with the loss of final -d or -t. It is an Old French form of ancient Germanic Theudhard Latinized as Thiardus and is composed of theud ‘people’ + hard- ‘hardy brave’. Scottish and Irish: variant of Tier
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
