When Boyer was born in 1791, in Lebanon Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, her father, Johann Frederic Christoph Bayer, was 31 and her mother, Magdalena D. Shalley, was 23.
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French: regional variant of Bouvier ‘herdsman’. This surname is also found in Haiti. Compare Bouyea and Boyea .
Altered form of German Bayer or Beyer .
German: habitational name for someone from Boye (near Celle-Hanover).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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