Feyer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: comparative form of fey: more fey
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/fɛaɪɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Feyer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Christmas Island it is the 18th most common surname.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 73K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 158K
- FRFrance≈1 in 577K
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
- 82 (measured from records)
- 1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)
≈510 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)comparative form of fey: more fey
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Feyer 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 | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Feyer | 53 |
| US United States | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | listed | Feyer | 82 |
| FR France | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 577K | 5 | Feyer | 69 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 115 | 1 in 73K | 115 | Feyer | 9 |
| BR Brazil | — | 34 | 1 in 6.2M | 34 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Feyer | 21 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 593K | — | Feyer | 15 |
| CX Christmas Island | #18 | — | — | — | Feyer | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Feyer is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In yol, fair
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Christian Feyerb. 1792NONorwegian civil servant and politician (1792-1879)
- Johan Feyerb. 1821NONorwegian industrial pioneer
- Adele Feyerb. 1870PLholocaust victim, b. 1870-08-06
- Edwin Feyerb. 1888DEGerman geodesist (1888–1948)
- Ursula Feyerb. 1901DEGerman linguist and phonetician
- George Feyerb. 1908HUHungarian musician
- Peotr Feyerb. 1930UAUkrainian Righteous Among the Nations
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 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 115 | #9,900 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 34 | #136,957 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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 Feyer mean, and where does it come from?
- comparative form of fey: more fey Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Feyer?
- A machine transcription gives /fɛaɪɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Feyer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 508 people named Feyer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled feyer.
- Where is Feyer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Feyer is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 73 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Feyer?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 115 people named Feyer in 2024, about 1 in 73 thousand residents.
- How common is Feyer compared with other names?
- In Christmas Island, Feyer is the 18th most common surname of 49 surnames 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/feyerThe 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, “Feyer” — the 18th most common surname in Christmas Island. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.