Mayerhofer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name for someone from Mayerhof in Bavaria, or from any of the numerous farms named Mayerhof, Maierhof, or Meyerhof
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/mɐjɛɾɔfɛɾ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Mayerhofer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Austria than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- LILiechtenstein≈1 in 13K
- DEGermany≈1 in 30K
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 Mayerhofer itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Austria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
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)habitational name for someone from Mayerhof in Bavaria, or from any of the numerous farms named Mayerhof, Maierhof, or Meyerhof.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mayerhofer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | #236 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Mayerhofer | 83 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Mayerhofer | 91 |
| US United States | — | 333 | 1 in 999K | 354 | Mayerhofer | 109 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Mayerhofer | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 184 | 1 in 1.2M | 184 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 31 | 1 in 271K | 31 | Mayerhofer | 15 |
| LI Liechtenstein | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 5 | — | 2 |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames). 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)- Franz Mayerhoferb. 1786ATactor and homeopath from Austria (1786-1871)
- Carl Mayerhoferb. 1828AT(1828-1913)
- Johannes Mayerhoferb. 1859ATAustrian artist and author (1859-1925)
- Georg Mayerhoferb. 1894DEGerman politician (1894-1966)
- Elfie Mayerhoferb. 1917ATAustrian actor and singer (1917–1992)
- Willi Mayerhoferb. 1951DEGerman painter and graphic artist
- Leopold Mayerhoferb. 1955ATAustrian politician
- Eva Mayerhoferb. 1970DEGerman music educator and singer
- Anna Paulina Lunab. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician and veteran (born 1989)
- Veronika Mayerhoferb. 1992ATcross-country skier
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 354 | #61,280 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 333 | #60,505 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 318 | #59,453 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 184 | #39,321 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 31 | #26,702 |
| LI Liechtenstein | Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames) | 2020 | 5 | — |
| 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 Mayerhofer mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from Mayerhof in Bavaria, or from any of the numerous farms named Mayerhof, Maierhof, or Meyerhof. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mayerhofer?
- In Portuguese /mɐjɛɾɔfɛɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Mayerhofer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Mayerhofer in Austria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mayerhofer.
- How common is the name Mayerhofer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 333 people named Mayerhofer in 2010, about 1 in 999 thousand residents.
- How common is Mayerhofer compared with other names?
- In Austria, Mayerhofer is the 236th most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mayerhoferThe 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, “Mayerhofer” — the 236th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.