Deer



Gender:
Origin: English
21 famous people named Deer found on Wikipedia.

Meanings

Deer is a Native American given name. Notable people with the name include:
Dick Deer Slayer (20th century), Native American football player
Susan Deer Cloud (born 1950), Native American writer


Old English deor "animal, beast," from Proto-Germanic *deuzam, the general Germanic word for "animal" (as opposed to man), but often restricted to "wild animal" (source also of Old Frisian diar, Dutch dier, Old Norse dyr, Old High German tior, German Tier "animal," Gothic dius "wild animal," also see reindeer), from PIE *dheusom "creature that breathes," from root *dheu- (1) "cloud, breath" (source also of Lithuanian dusti "gasp," dvesti "gasp, perish;" Old Church Slavonic dychati "breathe"). For prehistoric sense development, compare Latin animal from anima "breath"). Sense specialization to a specific animal began in Old English (usual Old English for what we now call a deer was heorot; see hart), common by 15c., now complete. Probably via hunting, deer being the favorite animal of the chase (compare Sanskrit mrga- "wild animal," used especially for "deer"). Deer-lick is first attested 1778, in an American context.


Means: animal deer.

Famous People: 21 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Deer Woman
2 Gary Mule Deer 1940 American actor
3 John Fire Lame Deer 1903 American activist
4 Rob Deer 1960 American baseball player
5 Brian Deer Journalist
6 Lame Deer
7 Ada Deer 1935 American scholar
8 James Young Deer 1876 American actor
9 Tracey Deer 1978 Canadian film director and publisher
10 Archie Fire Lame Deer 1935 Hollywood stuntman and Lakota Siouxmedicine man
11 Sarah Deer 1972
12 William Alexander Deer 1910 British geologist
13 Jancita Eagle Deer 1952 American rape victim
14 Esther Louise Georgette Deer 1891
15 Gene Deer American musician
16 George Deer 1890 British politician
17 Aaron Deer 1980 American singer-songwriter
18 Beatrice Deer Canadian singer
19 Andrew Deer 1987 English taekwondo practitioner
20 Peter Deer 1881 Canadian athlete
21 Dave Running Deer