Mierre is used as a family name or surname in Germany. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Mierre
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Germany
Meaning:

Mierre is a variant form of the Maier. An overseer or head servant; later, a farmer; one who cut and gathered grain, a reaper.

The form of the Meyer. An overseer, or head servant; later, a farmer; derived from the Hebrew me'ir meaning "light".

Mierre is a form of Myer. An overseer, or head servant; later, farmer.

Family name is a variant of Meyer. Farmer, baliff, seneschal, mayor.

Is a variant form of Mayer. Mauger, archbishop of Rouen, uncle to William the Conqueror, in consequence of great irregularities, abdicated his see and settled in the island of Guernsey. There he met with a lady of great beauty called Gisella or Guille, with whom, without the sanction of the Church, he formed an intimacy that resulted in a numerous progeny, some of whom took their father's, others their mother's name. "Hence," observes a correspondent, "Guilles and Maugers are as plentiful as black berries in the Channel Islands." From one of the family sprang Sir Matthias Mayer or Mayor, a Jerseyman, and a soldier under Henry VII who obtained agrant of arms and was lineal ancestor of R. Major, Esq., of Hurdsley, county of Hants, whose daughter Dorothy married Richard, afterwards Lord Protector Cromwell. The Maugers were very prominent in the early history of the Channel Islands.

Mierre is variant of the Mayer. A mayor, chief officer of a municipality. Other countries have the same surname: e.g. German Meier; Du. Meyer; French Lemaire, etc.

A form of the Meyer. German meier, a steward, bailiff, tenant of a farm, or farmer.

The is form of Miers. See Myers - See Meyer, Meyers - German meier, a steward, bailiff, tenant of a farm, or farmer.

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