Myer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1) from OFr mire ‘physician’; first attested Herewardus le Mire 1212 Cur (Berks)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/majɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Myer is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- OFrmire(measured from records)
- ONmýrr(measured from records)
1) from OFr mire ‘physician’; first attested Herewardus le Mire 1212 Cur (Berks). 2) ‘dweller by the marsh’, from ON mýrr; first attested Hugo, Adam del Mire 1274 Wak (Yorkshire), 1332 AssLa.
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Myer is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, 1. occupational name from Old French mire ‘physician’. 2. topographic name from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse myrr) . 3. variant of Mayer 1.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, One who gives light
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In enm, alternative form of mire (“mire”)
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)
- Albert James Myerb. 1828USUnion Army general (1828-1880)
- Horatio Myerb. 1850GBBritish politician
- Dillon Seymour Myerb. 1891USAmerican government official (1891–1982)
- Buddy Myerb. 1904USAmerican baseball player
- Ken Myerb. 1921AUAustralian businessman
- Baillieu Myerb. 1926AUAustralian businessman and philanthropist
- Marigold Southeyb. 1928AUnot in their usual nameAustralian philanthropist
- James Myerb. 1951USAmerican film director
- Steve Myerb. 1954USAmerican football player
- Mark Myeranimator
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 27 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.4K | #5,026 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.3K | #5,507 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.1K | #5,536 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 51 | #103,379 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 8 | #219 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #37,740 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #369,853 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #14,074 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #364,365 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #84,685 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Myer come from?
- 1) from OFr mire ‘physician’; first attested Herewardus le Mire 1212 Cur (Berks). 2) ‘dweller by the marsh’, from ON mýrr; first attested Hugo, Adam del Mire 1274 Wak (Yorkshire), 1332 AssLa. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What does the name Myer mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1) from OFr mire ‘physician’; first attested Herewardus le Mire 1212 Cur (Berks).
- How do you pronounce Myer?
- A machine transcription gives /majɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Myer have the most bearers?
- Myer is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Myer?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/myerThe 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, “Myer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.