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Mayor (surname)
Mayor is an English and Spanish-language surname with several etymological origins. The English-language name is sometimes a variant spelling of ''Mayer'',〔. This webpage cited: .〕 and thus derived from the Middle English and Old French ''mair'', ''maire'' (in turn derived from the Latin ''maior'', meaning "greater", "superior"); this surname originated from the title of a mayor.〔. This webpage cited: .〕 The surname ''Mayor'' can also be derived from a nickname, derived from the Spanish ''mayor'', meaning "older", borne by the elder of two individuals with the same name. Another origin of the surname is from an occupational name, derived from the Spanish ''major'', meaning "governor", "chief". The surname can also be a Catalan variant of the surname ''Major'',〔 derived from ''major'', meaning "greater", used to denote an elder son of a particular family or an important person.〔. This webpage cited: .〕 The surname ''Mayor'' can also be derived from the Yiddish personal name ''Meyer'',〔 which is derived from the Hebrew language ''Meir'', which in turn means "enlightener".〔. This webpage cited: .〕
==List of persons with the surname==
*Federico Mayor Zaragoza (born 1934), Spanish scholar and politician
*John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825–1910), English classical scholar
*Michel Mayor (born 1942), Swiss Astronomy professor at the University of Geneva
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