Meuer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name for someone from Meura near Saalfeld (Thuringia) or Meuro near Wittenberg
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Meuer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 56K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 764K
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name for someone from Meura near Saalfeld (Thuringia) or Meuro near Wittenberg.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Meuer counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Meuer | 83 |
| US United States | 251 | 1 in 1.3M | 270 | Meuer | 94 |
| BR Brazil | 78 | 1 in 2.7M | 78 | Meuer | 7 |
| AT Austria | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 210K | — | Meuer | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Meuer | 8 |
| CZ Czechia | 14 | 1 in 764K | 14 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Meuer | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 804K | — | Meuer | 7 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hans Meuerb. 1936DEGerman computer scientist (1936–2014)
- Gerda Meuerb. 1958DEGerman journalist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 270 | #76,719 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 251 | #76,533 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 232 | #76,946 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 78 | #76,222 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 14 | #66,155 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 14 | #17,071 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meuer mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from Meura near Saalfeld (Thuringia) or Meuro near Wittenberg. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Meuer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Meuer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meuer.
- How common is the name Meuer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 251 people named Meuer in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meuerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Meuer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.