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:
England & Wales
Scotland
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 Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Mayer Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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