Meyer
147,096 people in America carry this name — ranked #183 of 777.
A surname with a trade, a place or a father behind it.
Say it MY ur
2 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part
Phonetic transcription
M AY1 ER0 — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.
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People counted 147,096 2020 Census
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As a first name 1,851 ranked #7,969 the other way round
What Meyer means and where it comes from
German in origin, reading literally as “the magistrate of a city or town”.
Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.
Who answers to it now
- White alone (non-Hispanic) — 91.9%
- Black or African American alone (non-Hispanic) — 0.6%
- Hispanic or Latino origin — 3.3%
- Two or more races — 3.1%
- Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 0.8%
Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.
Same syllables and stress as Meyer
Ends on the same sound
- Johnson 1,858,234
- Miller 1,129,186
- Davis 1,074,448
- Wilson 777,275
- Thomas 734,345
- Taylor 723,758
- Jackson 686,937
- Perez 680,712
- Martin 678,691
- Lewis 515,459
Matched on phonemes, not spelling, so the lists follow the ear rather than the page.
The likeliest full names
- Michael Meyer ≈ 1,500 people
- John Meyer ≈ 1,400 people
- James Meyer ≈ 1,300 people
- David Meyer ≈ 1,200 people
- Robert Meyer ≈ 1,200 people
- William Meyer ≈ 1,000 people
- Mary Meyer ≈ 800 people
- Maria Meyer ≈ 700 people
The census counts first names and surnames separately and never together, so these are estimates: how often the two halves would meet if they paired at random. They do not — names cluster by community — so read them as an order of magnitude, not a headcount.
Try it How Rare Is It?
Where this name sits between household and almost unheard of.
Where this page gets its numbers
- Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
- Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
- Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.
Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers