Gayer
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: comparative form of gay: more gay
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡeɪɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gayer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 61K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 244K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 12K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
comparative form of gay: more gay
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Gayer is read(measured from records)
Gayer is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English63%
comparative form of gay: more gay
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German11%
Zu Geyer/Gaier; die Karte zeigt die a/ay-Vokalvariante. 584 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
- Portuguese7.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gayer in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gayer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Gayer | 1 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Gayer | 1 |
| US United States | 1,365 | 1 in 244K | 1.5K | Gayer | 221 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 61K | listed | Gayer | 79 |
| BR Brazil | 929 | 1 in 228K | 929 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Gayer | 21 |
| IL Israel | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Gayer | 12 |
| SG Singapore | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Gayer | 4 |
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 2000; the dfa-band-1 register; 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)
Gayer 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 Irish, An occasional synonym of McGirr or of the English toponymic Gare. Bibl
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Kryštof Karel Gayerb. 1668CZCzech composer, choirmaster and organist
- Arthur Edward Gayerb. 1801GBEnglish ecclesiastical commissioner
- Karl Gayerb. 1822DEGerman forester (1822–1907)
- Albert Gayerb. 1881DEGerman military personnel and non-fiction writer (1881-1930)
- Gyula Gáyerb. 1883HUbotanist (1883-1932)
- Catherine Gayerb. 1937USAmerican musician, singer, opera singer and music educator
- Wolfgang Gayerb. 1943DEGerman association football player
- Karin Gayerb. 1969ATAustrian writer
- Ted Gayerb. 1970USAmerican economist
- Lora Lee Gayerb. 1988USAmerican stage actress
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)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,652 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,731 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,647 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 929 | #9,936 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Gayer mean, and where does it come from?
- comparative form of gay: more gay Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gayer?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡeɪɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gayer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Gayer in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gayer.
- How common is the name Gayer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,365 people named Gayer in 2010, about 1 in 244 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gayer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gayerThe 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, “Gayer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.