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English
English : perhaps a habitational name from Rushmere in Suffolk, near Lowestoft, so named from Old English rysc ‘rushes’ + mere ‘pond’, ‘lake’.perhaps also an Americanized form of German Ruschmeier, a topographic name for a farmer who lived and farmed in an area where reeds grew (see Rusch 1 and Meyer).
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Hebrew
Variant spelling of Hebrew Meir, MEYER means "giving light."
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Australian, Bengali, German, Hebrew, Indian
A Farmer; Bringer of Lighto; Shining; Giving Light; Glowing
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English
English : from the Norman personal name Malg(i)er, Maug(i)er, composed of the Germanic elements madal ‘council’ + gÄr, gÄ“er ‘spear’. The surname is now also established in Ulster.Hungarian : from a shortened form of majorosgazda (see Majoros), or a derivative of German Meyer 1.Polish, Czech, and Slovak : from the military rank major (derived from Latin maior ‘greater’), a word related to English mayor and the German surname Meyer.Catalan and southern French (Occitan) : from major ‘major’ (Latin maior ‘greater’), denoting a prominent or important person or the first-born son of a family.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant of Meyer 2.
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English (Kent)
English (Kent) : unexplained.perhaps an Americanized form of German Engemeyer, a topographic name for a tenant farmer who lived in a narrow place, i.e. a deep, narrow valley, from eng ‘narrow’ (see Enge) + Meyer ‘tenant farmer’.
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : variant spelling of Mayer 1.Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic) : nickname for an older man or a distinguishing epithet for the elder of two bearers of the same personal name, from Spanish mayor ‘older’ (Latin maior (natus), literally ‘greater (by birth)’).Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic) : occupational or status name, from major ‘governor’, ‘chief’.Catalan : variant spelling of Major.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Meyer 2.
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Hebrew American
Shining. Surname.
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English
English : patronymic from Mayer 1.German : patronymic from Mayer 2.Dutch : variant of Meyer 1 and 3.
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English
English : patronymic meaning ‘son of the mayor’ (see Mayer 1).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : patronymic from the personal Meyer (see Meyer 2).American form of German Meyer, with excrescent -s.Irish : variant of Meyer 3.
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English
English : status name for a mayor, Middle English, Old French mair(e) (from Latin maior ‘greater’, ‘superior’; compare Mayor). In France the title denoted various minor local officials, and the same is true of Scotland (see Mair 1). In England, however, the term was normally restricted to the chief officer of a borough, and the surname may have been given not only to a citizen of some standing who had held this office, but also as a nickname to a pompous or officious person.German and Dutch : variant of Meyer 1.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Meyer 2.
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Italian English French
Flower.
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German, Swedish
Mighty in Battle
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Arthurian Legend
Name of a king.
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Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Wondrous Light
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Tamil
Forever
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English
English : from Anglo-Norman French cardon ‘thistle’ (a diminutive of carde, from Latin carduus), probably applied as a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of land overgrown with thistles, as an occupational name for someone involved in the carding of wool, originally carried out with thistle and teasel heads, or as a nickname for a prickly and unapproachable person.English : habitational name from Carden in Cheshire, which is recorded in the mid 13th century in the form Kawrdin and in the early 14th century as Cawardyn; it is probably named with Old English carr ‘rock’ + wor{dh}ign ‘enclosure’.
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American, Australian, British, Celtic, Christian, English, Gaelic, Indian, Irish, Scottish
Thin; Slender; Lean; Lean or Thin; Little Yellow One
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Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
Uncoverer
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Sail, Petty trade
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