Meyer

M3E1Y4E1R1
/ˈmaɪə(ɹ)//ˈmaɪ.ə(ɹ)/

proper noun

A male given name from Hebrew, of Jewish usage, an alternative form of Meir.

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Meanings

proper nounMeyer (countable and uncountable, plural Meyers)

plural Meyers

  1. countableA male given name from Hebrew, of Jewish usage, an alternative form of Meir.
  2. countableA surname.

    In late 2023, police chief Dan Meyer sent a letter to President Joe Biden and others pleading for assistance in response to a “rapid increase” in immigrants arriving to the city.

    2026 January 20, Bridgit Bowen, “One year into second Trump term, Wisconsin immigrants are ‘waiting for the worst’”, in Wisconsin Public Radio, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2026
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    Politico reported it had identified Luke Meyer, 24, a Pennsylvania-based field staffer who worked for five months for the former president, as the online white nationalist who used the pseudonym Alberto Barbarossa. […] After being presented with evidence by Politico linking him to the Barbarossa alias, Meyer admitted the connection and confessed that he had been concealing his online identity from fellow members of Trump Force 47, the arm of the Trump campaign overseeing volunteer mobilisation efforts.

    2024 November 5, Lorenzo Tondo, quoting Luke Meyer, “Trump staffer fired from Republican party for being a white supremacist”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2025
    1. countableuncountableA surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation] from Middle High German meier (“bailiff”).
    2. countableuncountableAn Ashkenazi surname from Yiddish [in turn originating as a patronymic].
    3. countableuncountableAn English surname originating as an occupation, an alternative form of Mayer.
    4. countableuncountableA surname from Danish.
  3. A locale in the United States.
    1. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Iowa.
    2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Adams County, Illinois.

Origin

  1. Yiddishמאיר
  2. EnglishMeyer

* As a German and Alemannic German surname, from the noun Meier (“leaseholder of a manor”). Compare Maier, Mayer, Meier, Myer. * As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish מאיר (mir). Compare Majer, Major, Mayor, Meir. * As a Dutch/West Flemish surname, variant of Meijer.

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APA

Meyer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Meyer

MLA

“Meyer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Meyer. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Meyer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Meyer.

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