Mayor Family History
Mayor Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): variant spelling of Mayer
1.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)’).Spanish and Jewish
(Sephardic): occupational or status name, from major
‘governor’, ‘chief’.Catalan: variant spelling of
Major.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 Mayor Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mayor families
 31 - 60  11 - 30 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Mayor families
|
446 - 889 149 - 445 |
1 - 148 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mayor families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Mayor Family Origin
Mayor Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Mayor
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Mayor Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Mayor census records
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