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mayor Name Meaning and History

  1. English (Lancashire): variant spelling of Mayer 1.
  2. Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic): nickname for an older man or a distinguishing epithet for the elder of two bearers of the same personal name, from Spanish mayor ‘older’ (Latin maior (natus), literally ‘greater (by birth)’).
  3. Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic): occupational or status name, from major ‘governor’, ‘chief’.
  4. Catalan: variant spelling of Major.
  5. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Meyer 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The mayor name in History

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Distribution of mayor Families in the US in 1920
Number of mayor families
 31-60
 11-30		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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