What country does the surname Weir come from?

Answer 1

Roxburghshire, Scotland

First found in Roxburghshire in Scotland where the surname was descended from Aubri de Vere; a descendant of the duchess Judith in 1058.

Spelling Variations are Weir, Vere, Ver, and some others

Answer 2

United Kingdom. Checking only some of the 81 pages of the 805 people named Weir that came through New York, most were from Ireland and England; some from Scotland. A few were from Germany, Belgium, and Switzerland.

Answer 3

GEESH! Everyone is taking a guess, some of which may be right or not. In FACT, any name CAN come from a number of different places, not just one "origin". The whole concept of a name belonging to one country or another, is unreliable to begin with.
Many names are COMMONLY associated as coming from one country, but there is a difference between commonly and exclusively.
If this is one of your family names, the only reliable way is to trace back on that individual person, and determine where they came from. I would say "whichever one came to the US", but nothing in your message indicates that you are even in the US. Once you do some actual research, it can easily turn out that the name is a variation of something else.. or even stumble onto an unknown adoption. Meaning, the name is not any proof of lineage at all.

Answer 4

Wier is a fairly uncommon surname in the United States. It traces ancestry from the Weir clan in Scotland. There are several variants of the name, but all supposedly go back to de Vere, a British noble family originally of Norman ancestry, from the eponymous town of Ver.

Answer 5

matches for Weir:

Crewe
Usage: English, Welsh
Extra: Statistics
Name for someone from Crewe in Chesire, which comes from Welsh criu "weir".


Ware
Usage: English
Extra: Statistics
Most examples of this surname are probably derived from the Old English wær meaning "(dweller by the) dam, weir". Some instances of this surname may stem from the Middle English nickname war(e) meaning "wary, astute, prudent".

Answer 6

There isn't a simple answer. It's common in Low German, particularly the Netherlands and Belgium. It's common in Germany. It's common in the British Isles. Names don't "come from a country"...people do. People take their names with them. People take their languages with them. English is based on Anglo-Saxon. Saxony speaks a form of German. German crept into the English language...and hence into English surnames as they developed...in the same way that French crept into Poland and Spanish crept into Portuguese.

The answer is that Weir comes from Europe and was transported throughout the continent by people, especially sailors. It doesn't have a single source and developed independently of outside sources in many countries.

As for where your line of that family originated, you have to do the research to find the answer. That's the fun of this hobby of ours. We get to figure out the answers for ourselves, irrespective of common wisdom.

Answer 7

Indubitably Bonnie Scotland. Weir else?

Answer 8

weir
Scottish and English: topographic name for someone who lived by a dam or weir on a river. Compare Ware.
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Mhaoir ‘son of the steward’ (see McNair).
Irish: Anglicized form, based on an erroneous translation (as if from Gaelic cora ‘weir’, ‘stepping stones’), of various Gaelic names such as Ó Corra and Ó Comhraidhe (see Corr and Curry).

Answer 9

the origins of the name weir go back to wales hundreds of years ago therafter to scotland, ireland, and south of england i

Answer 10

Germany.