Maher Family History
Maher Name Meaning
Irish: from Ó Meachair ‘descendant of Meachar’ a personal name meaning ‘kindly noble majestic’. Slovenian: nickname from maher a colloquial word of Middle High German origin (from macher ‘doer’). Compare German Macher Slovenian: possibly also from a Slovenized form of the Old German personal name Macher German: occupational name for a reaper or mower (see Mader ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022