The story
* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Meidhir (“descendant of Meidhir”), named based on meidhir (“mirth”). * As an English surname, variant of Myer. * Also as an English surname, the noun mire. * As a Dutch and German surname, Americanized from Meyers, Mayers, Meyer, Mayer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.