Last name: MAYOR

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MAYOR : This last name is indexed 119,687 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

MAYOR : 1: English (Lancashire): variant of Mayer 1.2: Spanish: nickname for an older man or a distinguishing epithet for the elder of two bearers of the same personal name from mayor ‘older’ from Latin maior (natus) literally ‘greater (by birth)’.3: Spanish: occupational or status name from major ‘governor chief’.4: Catalan: variant of Major.5: Jewish (Ashkenazic and Sephardic): from a variant of the personal name Meyer (see Meyer 2).

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