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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,518,895 Historical Documents with Mayer on Ancestry
- 1,367,519 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 282,262 Census and Voter Lists
- 126,300 Military Records
- 100,571 Immigration Records
- 642,243 Member Trees
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Number of Mayer families
 820 - 1,638  274 - 819 |
 1 - 273  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Mayer families
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329 - 655 110 - 328 |
1 - 109 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mayer families
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- 1,213
- Confederate
- 174
- Union
- 1,039
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