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
- 2,286,390 Historical Documents with Mayer on Ancestry
- 1,387,654 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 284,256 Census and Voter Lists
- 126,386 Military Records
- 101,742 Immigration Records
- 386,352 Member Trees
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Number of Mayer families
 329 - 655  110 - 328 |
 1 - 109  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mayer families
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44 - 86 15 - 43 |
1 - 14 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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