# Mayr (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/mayr/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 782 |
| US rank (2010) | 30,013 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 394,815 people |
| Change since 2000 | -8.0% (850 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Mayr in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 92% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.3% |
| Two or more races | 2.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Mayr in Austria and the Kingdom of Italy.

## People named Mayr

- Patricia Mayr-Achleitner, Austrian tennis player
- Verena Mayr, Austrian athlete
- Gustav Mayr, Austrian entomologist (1830–1908)
- Andrea Mayr, Austrian long-distance runner, mountain runner and cyclist
- Josef Mayr-Nusser, 20th-century Italian Catholic
- Hildegard Goss-Mayr, Austrian anti-war activist and Christian theologian
- Karin Mayr-Krifka, Austrian sprinter
- Richard Mayr, Austrian opera singer (1877–1935)

## Similar surnames

Maier, Marr, Mauro, Marra, Mar, Maria, Mauer, Marie, Mara, Mair, Mähr, Marro.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.