About the name Meyer
Meyer belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Meyer first appears in Social Security records in 1881. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #301 in 1912, and in 2024 89 babies received the name — 5,304 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.