Mayer
At the 2020 census, 37,738 Americans bore the surname Mayer — 911th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,920.
By the numbers
- People
- 37,738
- Rank
- 911th
- How common
- 1 in 7,920
- Per 100,000
- 12.6
Where the name comes from
Origin German
As an English surname, variant of Mear, from the noun mere (both senses).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Mayer described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Mayer
- Maria Göppert Mayer (1906–1972)German-born American theoretical physicist
- John Mayer (born 1977)American musician
- Robert Mayer (1814–1878)German physicist
- Marissa Mayer (born 1975)American business executive and engineer, former CEO of Yahoo!
- Louis B. Mayer (1884–1957)Canadian-American film producer
- Florian Mayer (born 1983)German tennis player
- Tobias Mayer (1723–1762)German astronomer
- Kevin Mayer (born 1992)French decathlete
People named Mayer with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Mayer
Also a first name
Mayer has been given to 2,613 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2021. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.