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Also Judeo-Anglo-Norman: http://heraldry.sca.org/names/jewish.html
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It sounds too much like a surname, no offense...
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Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), was a German Jewish banker and the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty.
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Meyer Lansky was a Jewish Mobster who had strong ties to the Sicilian Mafia, and whom the Godfather II character Hyman Roth is based on.
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People should note that the surname Meyer is very different from the given name Meyer, and that the given name contains strong Jewish connotations (being a name almost exclusively given to children in Yiddish communities), unlike the surname.
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There is a character named Meyer Wolfsheim in the novel The Great Gatsby. He's a Jewish gangster rumored to have fixed the World Series, and is in fact based on real-life gangster Arnold Rothstein who was responsible for the Black Sox Scandal of the 1919 World Series.
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Let's not even get into Stephenie Meyer, author of the immensely popular Twilight series.
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I can't imagine this as a first name.
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Pronounced meh-yur.
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Meyer is the Yiddish form of Meir. [noted -ed]
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