Maïer
surname · Latin script
Maïer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Meyer.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 3.6K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 23K
- USUnited States1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
14,135 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maier in US United States, CH Switzerland, ES Spain.
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)
- GermanMeyer(measured from records)
- Yiddishמאירmir(inferred from the name graph)via Meyer
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Borrowed from German Meyer.
Sources 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maïer 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 | 14,135 | 1 in 24K | 14K | Maier | 124 |
| BR Brazil | 8,316 | 1 in 25K | 8.3K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 2,336 | 1 in 3.6K | 2.3K | Maier | 22 |
| AR Argentina | 1,660 | 1 in 27K | 1.7K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 492 | 1 in 102K | 492 | Maier | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | 474 | 1 in 23K | 474 | — | — |
14,135 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maïer mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Meyer. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Maïer have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Maïer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maier.
- Where is Maïer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maïer is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 3.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Maïer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,135 people named Maïer in 2010, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ma%C3%AFerThe 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, “Maïer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.