Dwyer
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Duibhidhir (“descendant of Duibhuidhir”), a personal name composed of the elements dubh (“black, dark”) + odhar (“sallow, tawny”).
Proper noun
[edit]Dwyer (countable and uncountable, plural Dwyers)
- A surname from Irish.
- An unincorporated community in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Grant County, New Mexico, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Platte County, Wyoming, United States.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Dwyer is the 1291st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 27240 individuals. Dwyer is most common among White (92.03%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dwyer”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 505.
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English terms derived from Irish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Irish
- en:Unincorporated communities in Mississippi, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Mississippi, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Unincorporated communities in New Mexico, USA
- en:Places in New Mexico, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in Wyoming, USA
- en:Places in Wyoming, USA