# Meyer (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/meyer/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “leaseholder of a manor” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈmaɪə(ɹ)/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,612 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,404 / 208 (4% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 22, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

* As a German and Alemannic German surname, from the noun Meier (“leaseholder of a manor”). Compare Maier, Mayer, Meier, Myer. * As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish מאיר (mir). Compare Majer, Major, Mayor, Meir. * As a Dutch/West Flemish surname, variant of Meijer.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | 16,240 |
| 2013 | 19 | 6,643 |
| 2014 | 20 | 6,364 |
| 2015 | 14 | 8,293 |
| 2016 | 21 | 6,121 |
| 2017 | 20 | 6,215 |
| 2018 | 7 | 13,364 |
| 2019 | 6 | 14,983 |
| 2020 | 15 | 7,456 |
| 2021 | 13 | 8,323 |
| 2022 | 23 | 5,580 |
| 2023 | 17 | 6,840 |
| 2024 | 19 | 6,324 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,582 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 33 | 3,345 |
| 2012 | 56 | 2,316 |
| 2013 | 62 | 2,157 |
| 2014 | 64 | 2,149 |
| 2015 | 73 | 1,994 |
| 2016 | 77 | 1,915 |
| 2017 | 66 | 2,104 |
| 2018 | 67 | 2,113 |
| 2019 | 62 | 2,252 |
| 2020 | 80 | 1,863 |
| 2021 | 97 | 1,696 |
| 2022 | 90 | 1,812 |
| 2023 | 101 | 1,690 |
| 2024 | 91 | 1,803 |
| 2025 | 97 | 1,693 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 4 | 2,419 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3,036 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |

## People named Meyer

- Meyer Lansky, American gangster
- Meyer Guggenheim, American businessperson (1828–1905)
- Meyer Schapiro, American historian of art (1904–1996)
- Meyer Levin, American journalist (1905–1981)
- Meyer London, American politician (1871–1926)
- Meyer Dolinsky, American screenwriter, author and radio scriptwriter (1923-1984)
- M. H. Abrams, American literary theorist (1912–2015)
- Marcel Bluwal, French film director and screenwriter (1925–2021)
- Kenneth Setton, American medieval historian (1914–1995)
- Horace Kallen, American philosopher (1882–1974)
- Eugène Bloch, French physicist (1878-1944)
- Nathaniel Anselm von Rothschild, Austrian noble (1836-1905)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.