Stayer Family History
Stayer Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Steier and of its variant Steyer . Americanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Štajer: from a Slavicized form of a German habitational name (see Steyer ) for someone from Styria (Slovenian Štajerska German Steiermark) a duchy of the former Habsburg Empire comprising part of southern Austria and most of the eastern half of Slovenia.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022