as a Last Name
- 44,536
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Mayer
Meaning & Origins
English: status name for a mayor, Middle English, Old French mair(e) (from Latin maior ‘greater’, ‘superior’; compare Mayor). In France the title denoted various minor local officials, and the same is true of Scotland (see Mair 1). In England, however, the term was normally restricted to the chief officer of a borough, and the surname may have been given not only to a citizen of some standing who had held this office, but also as a nickname to a pompous or officious person.
| 780th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 44,536
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Mayer per capita
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