Meyer

Proper noun

Meyer (countable and uncountable, plural Meyers)

1. (countable) A male given name from Hebrew, of Jewish usage, an alternative form of Meir.
2. (countable) A surname.
   • 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...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
   • 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
   1. A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation] from Middle High German meier (“bailiff”).
   2. An Ashkenazi surname from Yiddish [in turn originating as a patronymic].
   3. An English surname originating as an occupation, an alternative form of Mayer.
   4. A surname from Danish.
3. A census-designated place in Iowa.
4. An unincorporated community in Adams County, Illinois.
5. An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Illinois.