Myers

Myers is the 103rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 220,983 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,353.

By the numbers

People: 220,983
Rank: 103rd
How common: 1 in 1,353
Per 100,000: 73.9

Where the name comes from

As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Meidhir (“descendant of Meidhir”), named based on meidhir (“mirth”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.5%
Black, not Hispanic 10.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Myers

Mike Myers (born 1963)Canadian actor, comedian and filmmaker
Emma Myers (born 2002)American actress
Ruby Myers (1907–1983)Indian actress
Harry Myers (1882–1938)American actor
Carmel Myers (1899–1980)American actress
Stanley Myers (1930–1993)British film composer
PZ Myers (born 1957)American biologist and blogger
Viola Myers (1927–1993)athletics competitor

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

Surnames like Myers

Myer

Also a first name

Myers has been given to 794 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2024. 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.