Surname statistics for Mayer

There are approximately 5,460 people named Mayer in the UK. That makes it the 1,913rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 86 are named Mayer.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)54601913N/A86
United Kingdom (1881 census)172125150.00657
Change since 1881+3739+602+0.003+29
Other Countries
United States39111803N/A145
Australia8072014N/A49

Politics

People with the surname Mayer are less likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Labour.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Mayer
Peter Mayer
Andrew Mayer
Robert Mayer
Stephen Mayer
Simon Mayer
Michael Mayer
Paul Mayer
John Mayer
James Mayer
Thomas Mayer
Daniel Mayer
Richard Mayer
Christopher Mayer
Alexander Mayer
Martin Mayer
Philip Mayer
Frank Mayer
Andy Mayer
Alan Mayer

Top female forenames

Elizabeth Mayer
Sally Mayer
Julie Mayer
Susan Mayer
Sarah Mayer
Ulrike Mayer
Laura Mayer
Margaret Mayer
Catherine Mayer
Charlotte Mayer
Mary Mayer
Lynne Mayer
Andrea Mayer
Patricia Mayer
Janet Mayer
Lisa Mayer
Lucie Mayer
Simone Mayer
Julia Mayer
Lily Mayer

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.