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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Greek : Christian; stone church

Family name origins & meanings

  • Austrian : occupational name for a cowherd, Chüyger in the Tyrolean dialect, from Kühe ‘cows’ (plural of Kuh) + -er suffix of agent nouns.
  • English and Scottish : possibly a variant spelling of Kear.

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