Last name: DYER

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DYER : This last name is indexed 255,082 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

DYER : 1: English: occupational name for a dyer of cloth from Middle English deier degher ‘dyer’ (Old English dēag ‘dye’; the verb is a back-formation from the agent noun). Compare Dexter. The name is typical of southern England. In the Midlands Dexter is the more common equivalent and in northern England Lister.2: Irish (Sligo and Antrim): variant of Dwyer.

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