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Maier is a surname of German origin.

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native label
Maier
different from
Maier
writing system
Latin script
Soundex
M600
Cologne phonetics
67
Caverphone
M11111
Commons category
Maier (surname)
language of work or name
German
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Maier is a surname of German origin.

It is a variant spelling of the more usual "Meyer", which is cognate with the English word "mayor", but with a different meaning.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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