Myers
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic O Midhir, probably a variant of 6 Meidhir ‘mayor’ (see Mayer 1)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Myers is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 4.7Kas Meg(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 20Kas Meg
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 21Kas Meg
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Myers itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 563 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
7,331 named Meg, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est., as Meg
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Meg in AU Australia, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Anglicized form of Gaelic O Midhir, probably a variant of 6 Meidhir ‘mayor’ (see Mayer 1).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Myers, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Myers 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 7,331as Meg | 1 in 45K | 230K | Myers | 563 |
| AU Australia | #605 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | 3 | Meg | 198 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 42K | listed | Meg | 32 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 3 | Meg | 255 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Meg | 24 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | Meg | 228 |
| NZ New Zealand | #761 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 15 | Meg | 96 |
| IE Ireland | #682 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Meg | 77 |
7,331 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling meg. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Myers is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
patronymic from Mayer 1, i.e. ‘son of the mayor’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
patronymic from mire ‘physician’ (see Myer 1).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Different form of Meyers.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Harry Myersb. 1882USAmerican actor (1882–1938)
- Isabel Briggs Myersb. 1897USAmerican writer (1897–1980)
- Carmel Myersb. 1899USAmerican actress (1899–1980)
- George Steeleb. 1937USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler and actor (1937-2017)
- Jackie DeShannonb. 1941USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
- PZ Myersb. 1957USAmerican biologist and blogger
- Mike Myersb. 1963CACanadian actor, comedian and filmmaker
- Kim Myersb. 1966USAmerican actress
- Curt Hawkinsb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler and promoter
- Emma Myersb. 2002USAmerican actress (born 2002)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 230K | #96 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 225K | #85 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 221K | #103 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Myers mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized form of Gaelic O Midhir, probably a variant of 6 Meidhir ‘mayor’ (see Mayer 1). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Myers have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.3 thousand people named Meg, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Myers?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,331 people named Meg in 2020, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
- How common is Myers compared with other names?
- In Australia, Myers is the 605th most common given name of 205,854 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/myersThe 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, “Myers” — the 605th most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.