Meyer Family History
- Meyer Name Meaning
- German and Dutch: from Middle High German meier, a status name for a steward, bailiff, or overseer, which later came to be used also to denote a tenant farmer, which is normally the sense in the many compound surnames formed with this term as a second element. Originally it denoted a village headman (ultimately from Latin maior ‘greater’, ‘superior’). Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Meyer (from Hebrew Meir ‘enlightener’, a derivative of Hebrew or ‘light’). Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meidhir, from meidhir ‘mirth’. Danish: variant spelling of Meier 3.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 5,564,431 Historical Documents with Meyer on Ancestry
- 2,888,682 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 780,975 Census and Voter Lists
- 261,867 Military Records
- 342,168 Immigration Records
- 1,290,739 Member Trees
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Number of Meyer families
 257 - 512  86 - 256 |
 1 - 85  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Meyer families
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34 - 66 12 - 33 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Meyer census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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