Last name: BYERS
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BYERS : This last name is indexed 73,891 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BYERS : 1: Scottish (Borders) and English (Cumberland and Durham): topographic name for someone who lived by a cattleshed Middle English byre or a habitational name from any of several places called with Old English b̄re ‘cattleshed’ for example Byers Green in County Durham or Byres near Edinburgh.2: English: variant of Byer with either an original plural or a post-medieval excrescent -s.3: English: variant of Byas.4: Americanized form of German and Dutch Beyers or Bayer or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname. Compare Bayers and Byars.
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