Dyster meaning | Last name Dyster origin

The family name is a form of the O'Dwyer. The O'Dwyers were chiefs of Kilnamanagh county of Tipperary.

Is the form of Dwyer. Said to be the Gaelic do-ire, a woody uncultivated place.

Is variant of the Diver. 1. Possibly from expertness in diving. 2. A river in Wiltshire.

Surname Dyster is the variant form of 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.

Lastname is variant of the 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 form of O'Dwyer. Descendant of Duibhidhir meaning "black Odhar".

Dyster is a variant form of Dyer. One who dyed cloth.

Dyster is a form of the Dwyer. Descendant of the dark, tawny man; grandson of Dubhodhar meaning "black Odhar".

Variant of Dexter. One who dyed cloth.

Dyster is variant form of Dier. One who dyed cloth.

Dyster is variant 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.