Tyer Family History

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.