Frequency: (2479) (number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: 1. occupational name from Old French mire ‘physician’. 2. topographic name from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr). 3. variant of Mayer 1.
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