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Meyer

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Usage

Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

From the German surname

Middle High German meier = 'higher, superior', a name for landholder's stewards and great farmers or leaseholders

Deriving from Latin major domus = 'mayor or supervisor of the household' [1]

Related Names

Mayer ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Norwegian Swedish
Meier ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Norwegian Swedish
Meyer ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Meyer
Genitive: Meyers
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Meyer
Genitive: Meyerin
Partitive: Meyeriä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Meyer
Genitive: Meyers
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Meyer
Genitive: Meyers

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[3]
2 36 0 4 2 32
Denmark Denmark[4]
11
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 11
n.a.
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
 6 0 0
n.a.
 6
Greenland Greenland[6]
0 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 8
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Meyer.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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