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Mayer

#1,898 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Mayer has been given to 2,613 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #1,898 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 92 recorded.

Babies named Mayer, 2025

1 in 39,900

Mayer over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mayer: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mayer means

Mayer is a given name.

The naming story behind Mayer

Wikidata records Mayer as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q98962302, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,545 boys were recorded with the name Mayer between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 92 in 2021; its best national rank was #1,757 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,842 in 2020 to #1,898 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,221 in 2015 to #1,898 in 2025.

In the United States, 68 girls were recorded with the name Mayer between 2012 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2024; its best national rank was #8,770 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,682 in 2020 to #10,611 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Mayer?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,900
83 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 20,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,898
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,687 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mayer sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,687 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mayer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mayers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mayer was born before 2006 — so the typical Mayer is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,325
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Choose a decade

2010s — 23.4% of all recorded uses (596).

Is Mayer rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−50
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−56
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+323
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.36×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.2%
Peak was 2021 (92)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,757
2021

Spellings of Mayer

Mayer is not the most common spelling — Mateo is, with 42.2% against Mayer's 0.85%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mayer is used

Across 1910–2025, Mayer was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 33,011 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 8,333
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arizona1 in —
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mayer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mayer around the world

Where Mayer ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2022
    #3,049
    in 2022
  • France
    1903–2024
    #6,707
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2013–2013
    #2,319
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Mayer

People whose public names include Mayer, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mayer in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Mayer. Linked forms have their own page here.

Meir

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Mayer by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,898
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 56
Best rank ever
#1,757
2021
Peak year
2021
92 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,545
Count in 2025
83

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,611
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,071
Best rank ever
#8,770
2024
Peak year
2024
12 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
68
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Mayer

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BryerMaysonMaynorMeyerMaysenMayanMaycoThayerMayesMayoMaylonMyerMaykelMaycolSayerMayraMaynardRoyerMaysMaycenMayelMayurMaykolMay

Names with a curve like Mayer

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mayer, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Mayer

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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