Dier Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Dier is best understood alongside Dyer: both are English spellings of one family name. Read literally, Dier points to “Dyer of cloth”.

• Dier writes “i” in place of the “y” found in Dyer, a typical scribal difference.
• The same family of names includes Deyer, Dyers and Dyar.
• The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Dier with 691 bearers, at rank 33,121. INSEE counts 211 people born in France with the Dier surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1921–1930.

Heraldry and the Dier name

Arms linked to Dyer and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Dier surname pack.