Name: Mayer
Gender: Male
Usage: Mayer, of jewish origin, is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Mayer are in general originating from Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Mayer is: Farmer, Greater.
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Numerology of the first name Mayer: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 8. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: ambitious, successful, realistic, powerful, authoritative, courageous, leading.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Visionary
Ruling planet: Saturn
Colors: Black, Purple
Gemstones: Ruby, Amethyst
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The name Mayer is ranked on the 20,450th position of the most used names. It means that this name is rarely used.
We estimate that there are at least 10300 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Mayer has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Mayer for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Mayer is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Adolf Mayer (1843–1942), a German-Dutch virologist
- Albrecht Mayer (born 1965), a German classical oboist
- Alfred G. Mayer (1868–1922), an American cnidariologist and entomologist
- Alfred M. Mayer (1836-1897), a United States physicist
- Arno J. Mayer (born 1926), a Luxembourgian-American historian
- Arthur Mayer (1886-1981), film producer and distributor who worked with Joseph Burstyn
- Auguste Étienne François Mayer (1805–1890), French naval painter
- Ben Mayer (died 2000), American amateur astronomer
- Bernadette Mayer (born 1945), American poet and author
- Brantz Mayer (1809-1879), American writer
- Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer (1839–1907), German mathematician
- Carl Mayer (1894–1944), Austrian-German screenwriter
- Charles Mayer (disambiguation)
- Christa Mayer, German mezzo-soprano
- Christian Mayer (1719–1783), Czech astronomer
- Christian Mayer (skier) (born 1972), Austrian skier
- Christopher Mayer (American actor) (1954-2011), American actor
- Christopher Mayer (Australian actor) (born 1961), Australian actor
- Christian Mayer (Wisconsin) (1827-1910), American politician
- Constant Mayer (1829-1911), French-born U.S. painter
- Daisy von Scherler Mayer (born 1965), American film director
- Daniel Mayer (1909–1996), French politician
- David Mayer (disambiguation)
- Edwin Justus Mayer (1896–1960), American screenwriter
- Elizabeth Mayer (1884–1970), German-American translator and writer
- Else Mayer (1891–1962), German nun and women's liberation activist
- Erskine Mayer (1887–1957), American major league baseball player
- Florian Mayer (born 1983), German tennis player
- Francis Blackwell Mayer (1827-1899), United States painter
- Frank H. Mayer (1850-1954), American frontiersman, primarily from Colorado
- Fred Mayer (born 1933), Swiss photographer
- Fred Shaw Mayer (1899–1989), Australian zoological collector and aviculturist
- Frederick Mayer (1921–2006), German educational scientist
- Frederick Mayer (born 1921), American spy during World War II
- Gene Mayer (born 1956), American former tennis player
- Gerhard Mayer (born 1980), Austrian discus thrower
- Hans Ferdinand Mayer (1895–1980), German mathematician and physicist, and author of the Oslo Report
- Hans-Peter Mayer (born 1944), German politician
- Helen Mayer (1932–2008), Australian politician
- Helene Mayer (1910–53), German and American Olympic champion foil fencer
- Henry "Hy" Mayer (c. 1868-1954), German-American animator
- Jacquelyn Mayer (born 1942), American beauty contest winner and motivational speaker
- Jane Mayer (born 1955), American investigative journalist
- Jean Mayer (1920–1993), French-American nutritionist and tenth president of Tufts University
- Jean-François Mayer (born 1957), Swiss historian of religions
- Johann Friedrich Mayer (theologian) (1650-1712), German theologian
- Johann Friedrich Mayer (agriculturist) (1719-1798), German agriculturist
- Johann Tobias Mayer (1752–1830), German physicist
- John Mayer (born 1977), American singer and songwriter
- John Mayer (composer) (1930–2004), Indian composer
- John D. Mayer, American psychologist
- Jojo Mayer (born 1963), Swiss drummer
- Jorge Mayer (1915–2010), Archbishop of Bahía Blanca, Argentina
- José Mayer, Brazilian actor
- Joseph Edward Mayer (1904–1983), American chemist and physicist, married to Maria Goeppert Mayer
- Karla Mayer (born 1918), guard at three Nazi death camps
- Karoly Mayer (1908 - ?), Hungarian footballer
- Lauren Etame Mayer (born 1977), Cameroonian footballer
- Leonardo Mayer (born 1987), Argentine tennis player
- Levy Mayer (1858–1922), American lawyer
- Louis B. Mayer (1884–1957), MGM studio mogul
- Marissa Mayer (born 1975), CEO of Yahoo!
- Martin Mayer (born 1928), American nonfiction author
- Mercer Mayer (born 1943), American children's book author and illustrator
- Michael Mayer (volleyball) (born 1980), German volleyball player
- Monica Mayer (born 1954), Mexican artist, activist and art critic
- Nathaniel Mayer (1944–2008), American rhythm-and-blues singer
- Norman Mayer (1916–1982), American anti-nuclear activist
- Paul Avila Mayer (c. 1933-2009), American television writer and producer
- Paul Mayer OSB (1911–2010), German cardinal
- Peter Mayer (born 1936), American publisher
- Philip Frederick Mayer (1781-1858), United States Lutheran clergyman
- René Mayer (1895–1972), French politician
- Richard J. Mayer (born 1939), American engineer
- Robert Mayer (philanthropist) (1879–1985), German-Jewish philanthropist and businessman
- Robert Mayer (Missouri) (born 1957), American politician
- Robert Mayer (ice hockey) (born 1989), Czech ice hockey goaltender
- Rupert Mayer (1876–1945), Jesuit priest and leading figure of the Catholic Nazi resistance
- Sandy Mayer (born 1952), American former tennis player
- Scott Mayer (driver) (born 1964), race car driver
- Selma Mayer (1884-1984), known as Schwester Selma, German-Jewish head nurse at the original Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
- Sheldon Mayer (1917–1991), American cartoonist and editor
- Siegmund Mayer (1842–1910), German physiologist
- Teddy Mayer (1935–2009), American racecar driver and brother of Timmy
- Tim Mayer (born 1966), son of Teddy and racecar executive
- Timmy Mayer (1938–1964), American racecar driver
- Tobias Mayer (1723–1762), German astronomer
- Victor Mayer (1857–1946), German jeweler
- Walther Mayer (1887–1948), Austrian mathematician
- Wilhelm Mayer (composer) (1831-1898), Bohemian-Austrian composer and teacher
- Wilhelm Mayer (1917-1945), German Luftwaffe ace
- William Mayer (born 1925), American composer
- William Daniel Mayer (born 1940), American politician
- Nicholas De Mayer (c. 1631-1695), ninth mayor of New York City
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906–1972), German-American physicist, married to Joseph Edward Mayer
- Heidrun Mohr-Mayer (born 1942), German jeweler
- Herbert Mohr-Mayer (born 1933), German jeweler
- Julius Robert von Mayer (1814–1878), a German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to early thermodynamics
- Irene Mayer Selznick (1907–1990), born Irene Gladys Mayer, an American theatrical producer and daughter of MGM studio founder Louis B. Mayer
- Mayer Hawthorne (born 1979), American rap singer
Given name: A first or second Hebrew name, an alternative spelling of Meir:
- Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild family
- Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild
- Carl Mayer von Rothschild, founder of Rothschild banking family of Naples
- James Mayer Rothschild, founder of Rothschild banking family of France
- Mayer Alphonse James Rothschild
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild, founder of Rothschild banking family of England
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
- Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, founder of Rothschild banking family of Austria
- Isaac Mayer Wise
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