Meier

Meier is the 1,381st most common surname in the United States, shared by 25,215 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 11,900.

By the numbers

People: 25,215
Rank: 1,381st
How common: 1 in 11,900
Per 100,000: 8.4

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From German Meier.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Meier described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Meier

Richard Meier (born 1934)American architect
Sid Meier (born 1954)Canadian-American game programmer and designer
Alexander Meier (born 1983)German footballer
Christian Meier (born 1970)Peruvian singer-songwriter, director, and actor
Billy Meier (born 1937)Swiss author and founder of FIGU Organization
Norbert Meier (born 1958)German football player
Ursula Meier (born 1971)French-Swiss film director and actress
Urs Meier (born 1959)Swiss football referee

People named Meier with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Meier

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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.