Dyear is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, England. It is 5 characters long in length.
Surname Dyear is variation of Diver. 1. Possibly from expertness in diving. 2. A river in Wiltshire.
The variation of the Dexter. Possibly from Latin, dexter, in the sense of lucky, fortunate—the antithesis of sinister; but more likely a contraction of De Exeter, from the chief town of Devonshire.
Dyear is variant form of Dexter. Of Exeter; or Destrier or Dextrier, War-horse; Jordan de Exeter, founder of the Irish family of MacJordan, was called also Dexcestre and Dexecester. Richard Dexter, of Malden, Mass., was made freeman in 1642. One of his descendants, the Hon. Samuel Dexter, was secretary of the Treasury of the U.S. in 1801.
Lastname is a variation of the O'Dwyer. Descendant of Duibhidhir meaning "black Odhar".
Dyear is a variation of Dwyer. Descendant of the dark, tawny man; grandson of Dubhodhar meaning "black Odhar".
Variation of Dexter. One who dyed cloth.
A variation of Dyer. One who dyed cloth.
Variant form of Dier. One who dyed cloth.
Dyear is a variant of the Dwyer. Said to be the Gaelic do-ire, a woody uncultivated place.
The form of Dyer. The occupation; tinctor. Tein turier, its equivalent, is a French surname, and the famous Italian painter Tintoretto, whose family name was Robusti, was so called because his father had been a tintore or dyer.
The surname is a variant form of O'Dwyer. The O'Dwyers were chiefs of Kilnamanagh county of Tipperary.