Mayer is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Mayer is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Mayer. In the SmartGenius ranking, Mayer is #1,864 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Mayer.
While Mayer is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1951, the name Mayer reached its highest popularity with #1,496 in our ranking of all male first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their son Mayer. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and boys in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Mayer.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Mayer was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 85 babies were born with the name Mayer. This puts the name in rank 1,679 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 2,017,825 newborns was named Mayer that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Mayer has been and remains marvelously unusual!
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Mayer. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 1,555 Americans who bear this name. And these 1,555 men and boys named Mayer live in no more than 6 different states, including for example Arizona, California, Florida, New Jersey and New York. In the other 43 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Mayer lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Mayer and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Mayer relative to its male population is New York. And even there, only one male in 8,959 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Mayer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With five letters, the name Mayer is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Mayer and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Mayer, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Yoyo
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Mayer
Mayer
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Mayer sounds like this:
