Meyers
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymic genitive of Meyer; variant family forms with -s are attested
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/majɹz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meyers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 5.8K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 8.9K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 483 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
57,127 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Luxembourg, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Patronymic genitive of Meyer; variant family forms with -s are attested.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Meyers, 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)
Meyers 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 | #473 | 57,127 | 1 in 5.8K | 57K | Meyers | 483 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Meyers | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Meyers | 145 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Meyers | 11 |
| IT Italy | #888 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Meyers | 25 |
| BE Belgium | — | 2,021 | 1 in 5.8K | 2K | Meyers | 80 |
| IE Ireland | #516 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Meyers | 26 |
| LU Luxembourg | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 1.2K | — | 22 |
| IS Iceland | #580 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Meyers | 7 |
57,127 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es). 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)
Meyers is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, patronymic meaning ‘son of the mayor’ (see Mayer 1).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, American form of German Meyer, with excrescent -j.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, son of Meyer
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In German, genitive singular of Meyer
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)
- Franz Meyersb. 1908DEGerman politician (1908-2002)
- Nancy Meyersb. 1949USAmerican film director, producer and screenwriter
- Richard Hellb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, songwriter, bass guitarist and writer (born 1949)
- Françoise Bettencourt Meyersb. 1953FRFrench businesswoman, billionaire
- Dave Meyersb. 1953USAmerican basketball player (1953-2015)
- Scott Meyersb. 1959USAmerican computer programmer
- Seth Meyersb. 1973USAmerican comedian, television host and actor
- Josh Meyersb. 1976USAmerican actor and comedian
- Jonathan Rhys Meyersb. 1977IEIrish actor (born 1977)
- Dave Meyersb. 2000USAmerican music video and film director
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 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 57K | #586 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 57K | #528 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 55K | #595 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2K | #503 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.9K | #544 |
| LU Luxembourg | Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es) | — | 1.2K | #36 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Meyers mean, and where does it come from?
- Patronymic genitive of Meyer; variant family forms with -s are attested. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- How do you pronounce Meyers?
- A machine transcription gives /majɹz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Meyers have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 57 thousand people named Meyers, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meyers.
- How common is the name Meyers?
- In the United States, the national register counted 57,127 people named Meyers in 2010, about 1 in 5.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Meyers compared with other names?
- In the United States, Meyers is the 473rd most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meyersThe 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, “Meyers” — the 473rd most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.