Mayr Coat of Arms, Crest and Name Facts

One surname, two spellings: Mayr and Mayer. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Steward, tenant farmer”.

• Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.
• You may also find the name written Mayers.
• About 782 people in the United States were recorded as Mayr in 2010, placing it 30,013 on the national list. It sits within the 50,000 most common last names in the country.
• Without the “e” of Mayer, Mayr is a simpler written form of the same name.

Heraldry and the Mayr name

Arms linked to Mayer and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Mayr surname pack.