as a Last Name
- 170,342
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Meyer
Meaning & Origins
German and Dutch: from Middle High German meier, a status name for a steward, bailiff, or overseer, which later came to be used also to denote a tenant farmer, which is normally the sense in the many compound surnames formed with this term as a second element. Originally it denoted a village headman (ultimately from Latin māior ‘greater’, ‘superior’).
| 153rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 170,342
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Iowa
- has the most people named Meyer per capita
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