Majer Family History
Majer Name Meaning
Polish Czech Slovak Slovenian Croatian and Serbian; Hungarian (also Májer): status name for a steward bailiff or tenant farmer from a Slavicized or Hungarized form of German Meyer 1 Mayer As a Slovenian surname it is derived from the loanword majer ‘steward bailiff’ which also denoted a hired worker on a forest estate. Compare Maier 4 and Mayer 6. Slovak: from majer ‘manor farm estate’ a loanword from German (compare 1 above) probably used to denote a person living and working at the farm. Compare Majernik . Jewish (Ashkenazic): from a variant of the personal name Meyer (see Meyer ). German: variant of Maier 1 (see Meyer ). German: variant of Macher
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022