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    The surname Hayer

    A French occupational surname, carried by 651 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H600

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hayer is more common than 78.6% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    Various etymologies: * A variant of the English surname Ayer. * A topographic surname for someone who lived by an enclosure, from Middle English hay (“enclosure, hedge”) + -er. * Borrowed from French Hayer, an occupational surname for a warder of a woodland, from Old French haye (“hedge”). * Borrowed from South German Hayer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German heien (“to guard, protect”). * Borrowed from Punjabi ਹਾਈਯਰ (hāīyar), surname based on the name of a Jat clan.

    Hayer is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 651 people named Hayer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 474,263 Americans. That is up 23% since 2000, when the Census counted 531.

    #34,707
    rank among US surnames
    651
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +22.6%
    change since 2000 (was #39,052)

    Who is named Hayer

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    48% of people named Hayer identified as white (not Hispanic), 32% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 48%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 32%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.3%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Hayer

    Hayer has the Soundex code H600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H600.

    Other French surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Hayer come from?
    Various etymologies: * A variant of the English surname Ayer. * A topographic surname for someone who lived by an enclosure, from Middle English hay (“enclosure, hedge”) + -er. * Borrowed from French Hayer, an occupational surname for a warder of a woodland, from Old French haye (“hedge”). *…
    How common is the surname Hayer?
    651 people in the United States had the surname Hayer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 474,263 Americans. It ranked 34,707th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hayer?
    In the 2010 Census, 48% of people named Hayer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 32% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    What type of surname is Hayer?
    Hayer is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Hayer getting more or less common?
    More common. 531 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 651 in 2010, up 23%.