Mayer
Mayer was given to 83 boys in 2025, #1,898 among boys’ names; 2,613 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,310 Americans named Mayer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 7 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mayer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mayer?
#1,898 among boys’ names, 2025
Mayer rose from #2,221 in 2015 to #1,898 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 31.8 to 48.6 per million.
100 babies in 2024, the peak
Mayer peaked in 2024, when 100 babies were given it (88 boys, #1,848 among boys’ names). The 92 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 92% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #1,898 | 48.6 |
| 2024 | 88 | #1,848 | 51.1 |
| 2023 | 88 | #1,824 | 51.4 |
| 2022 | 81 | #1,931 | 46.4 |
| 2021 | 92 | #1,757 | 52.6 |
| 2020 | 81 | #1,842 | 46.9 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,074 | 39.0 |
| 2018 | 75 | #1,969 | 41.3 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,229 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,104 | 35.3 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,221 | 31.8 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,310 | 29.7 |
| 2013 | 55 | #2,320 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,471 | 26.9 |
| 2011 | 51 | #2,464 | 26.9 |
| 2010 | 49 | #2,535 | 25.5 |
| 2009 | 48 | #2,611 | 24.2 |
| 2008 | 52 | #2,451 | 25.5 |
| 2007 | 37 | #3,113 | 17.8 |
| 2006 | 48 | #2,528 | 23.4 |
| 2005 | 43 | #2,592 | 21.5 |
| 2004 | 27 | #3,507 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,899 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 40 | #2,492 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,193 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,258 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,154 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 38 | #2,333 | 19.9 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,585 | 16.4 |
| 1996 | 33 | #2,406 | 17.4 |
| 1995 | 27 | #2,730 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,907 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,104 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,641 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,407 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 29 | #2,408 | 14.1 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,746 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,409 | 13.1 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,788 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,198 | 14.1 |
| 1985 | 22 | #2,405 | 11.9 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,773 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,635 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,782 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 26 | #2,071 | 14.5 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,906 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,979 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 14 | #3,020 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,863 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,669 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,582 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,754 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,668 | 9.0 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,302 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,224 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,370 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,489 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,846 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,828 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,155 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,255 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,779 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,796 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,616 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 17 | #2,045 | 8.0 |
| 1960 | 21 | #1,801 | 9.8 |
| 1959 | 18 | #1,950 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 20 | #1,818 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 15 | #2,159 | 7.0 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,589 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,753 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,097 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,485 | 5.6 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,280 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 18 | #1,811 | 9.6 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,563 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,200 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,550 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,832 | 4.9 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,879 | 5.6 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,114 | 5.1 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,794 | 6.9 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,799 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,424 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,782 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,347 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,020 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,315 | 11.1 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,108 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,586 | 9.6 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,152 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,780 | 9.0 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,378 | 11.7 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,721 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,649 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,744 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,702 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,031 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,590 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,875 | 9.7 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,390 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,398 | 13.0 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,134 | 9.2 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,781 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mayer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,613 Americans recorded as Mayer, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls and 83 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mayer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mayer, and how old are they?
2,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 2,613 Americans ever recorded as Mayer. The median Mayer alive today is 16 years old; half are between 7 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,919 people named Mayer (93 women and girls, 1,826 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,823 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 16 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 144 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 155 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 356 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 624 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,010 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Mayer born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 39 | #444 | 8.8× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #565 | 1.6× |
Where Mayer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mayer is most over-represented in New York: since 1912 it was given 8.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mayer with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 5,808 babies since 1880, Mayer is the most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 92 of their 275 babies (33%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mayer
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mayer and names like it
- Compare Mayer and MahirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMayer peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mayer since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Mayer.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mayer alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.