When Clayton Jay Moyer was born on 2 September 1953, in Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota, United States, his father, William Owen Moyer, was 39 and his mother, Hallie Elmira Keen, was 37. He lived in Renner, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States in 2007. He died on 18 July 1992, in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States.
Americanized form of German Meyer or Mayer .
French: status name for a sharecropper, from an angent derivative of Old French moie ‘half’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of Dutch Mooijer: surname associated with Maaijer, an occupational name for a mower or reaper (see Maier ). However, almost all bearers come from Volendam (North Holland), where the surname originated as Pooijer, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman (peurder) or a nickname for someone carrying a ponjaard ‘dagger’. The surname was changed to Mooijer due to the connotation with Dutch pooier ‘bully, fancy-man’.
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