Given name & surname · also French
Weir
“of the war”
Weir is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As an English and Scottish surname, Weir goes back to Norman de la Were, meaning “of the war.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Weir has more than one origin: as an English and Scottish surname, it comes from Norman de la Were; as an Irish surname, it goes back to a word meaning “son of the steward”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Weir through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 46
- 46 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 1929. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 18,392 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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