Mayer Family History
Mayer Name Meaning
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.German and
Dutch: variant of Meyer 1.Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of
Meyer 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Mayer Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mayer families
 820 - 1,638  274 - 819 |
 1 - 273  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Mayer families
|
329 - 655 110 - 328 |
1 - 109 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mayer families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Mayer Family Origin
Mayer Immigration Information
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Mayer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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