Myer

At the 2020 census, 6,072 Americans bore the surname Myer — 5,536th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 49,200.

By the numbers

People: 6,072
Rank: 5,536th
How common: 1 in 49,200
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

As an English surname of Norman/French origin, from the archaic noun mire (“physician”). Compare Mee, Mayer.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.3%
Black, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Surnames like Myer

Myers

Also a first name

Myer has been given to 1,119 American babies as a first name since 1893, peaking in 1918. 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.