Surname Spotlight: Meixner

Meixner is a surname that official counts record clearly. In Wikidata, Meixner is listed as a German surname.

Researching the origin

Spelling in old records was loose, so search for Meixner under several forms. Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Meixner, so we research it family by family rather than guess.

Meixner ranked 21,633 in the 2010 US Census, with 1,205 people answering to the name. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames.

Family crest and blazon

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Meixner, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

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