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Scottish and English: occupational name from Older Scots officiar Middle English officer ‘servant retainer’ and ‘officer’ in any of various senses. A kirk officiar in Scotland was an ‘officer charged with keeping order in the church and with enforcing church discipline in the parish’ or ‘beadle or church-servant’. In both Scotland and England the word officer was also used to denote the manager of an estate. English: perhaps a shortened form of Old French orfroisier Anglo-Norman French Middle English orfreiser ‘maker of orphrey (gold-thread embroidery)’. Compare Offer
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
