as a Last Name
- 7,868
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Geyer
Meaning & Origins
German: nickname for a greedy or rapacious person, from Middle High and Middle Low German gīr(e) ‘large bird of prey’, ‘vulture’. Some early examples may be a habitational name from houses bearing the sign of a bird of prey or from a place named Geyer near Zwickau, in Saxony, which is probably ultimately from the same word.
| 3,919th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,868
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Dakota
- has the most people named Geyer per capita
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