Meyer
Meyer is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 89 births. Its best rank was 301st, in 1912.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 890.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1917214 births
- Best rank
- #301in 1912
- Since 1881
- 5,504people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,304 boys have been named Meyer in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 214 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1910s alone account for 30%. It has spent 39 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 200 girls have also been given it, 3.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Meyer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 42 | |
| 1890s | 90 | |
| 1900s | 252 | |
| 1910s | 1,593 | |
| 1920s | 1,033 | |
| 1930s | 197 | |
| 1940s | 138 | |
| 1950s | 150 | |
| 1960s | 89 | |
| 1970s | 127 | |
| 1980s | 103 | |
| 1990s | 164 | |
| 2000s | 274 | |
| 2010s | 596 | |
| 2020s | 456 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Meyer was the 385th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Meyer
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Isidorepeak 1919
- Isadorepeak 1916
- Hymanpeak 1916
- Solpeak 1918
- Irvingpeak 1918
- Sigmundpeak 1918
- Myerpeak 1918
- Elmopeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.