Slaymaker
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Slaymaker is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guernsey it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘maker of slays’ (weaving implement), from ME sleye/slaye; first attested John Slaymaker 1379 PTY.
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 227K◐
- USUnited States1 in 298K
- GGGuernsey1 in 426
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.1K ●
- Sources
- 186 ●
- 1 in 298K ◐
across 2 countries
10K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
‘maker of slays’ (weaving implement), from ME sleye/slaye; first attested John Slaymaker 1379 PTY
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,116 | 8.4K rec. | 1 in 298K | 1.2K | Slaymaker | 186 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,026 | 923 rec. | — | — | Slaymaker | 60 |
| AU Australia | — | 183 | 175 rec. | — | — | Slaymaker | 22 |
| CA Canada | — | 120 | 113 rec. | — | — | Slaymaker | 21 |
| DZ Algeria | — | 113 | 113 rec. | — | — | Slaymaker | 1 |
| IE Ireland | — | 50 | 49 rec. | — | — | Slaymaker | 3 |
| EG Egypt | — | 46 | 44 rec. | — | — | Slaymaker | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 26 | 26 rec. | — | — | Slaymaker | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | 24 | 23 rec. | — | — | Slaymaker | 5 |
| IT Italy | — | 23 | 23 rec. | — | — | Slaymaker | 1 |
| PH Philippines | — | 22 | 25 rec. | — | — | Slaymaker | 1 |
| GG Guernsey | #2 | 18 | 40 rec. | — | — | Slaymaker | 1 |
Roughly 1.1K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 298K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English10K88%
- Spanish3653%
- 1731%
- French1011%
- German871%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 10,311 | 88% |
| Spanish | 365 | 3% |
| 173 | 1% | |
| French | 101 | 1% |
| German | 87 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Amos Slaymakerb. 1755USpolitician (1755-1837)
- Faithful Slaymaker Duffieldb. 1767(1767-1817)
- Olav Slaymakerb. 1939CABritish Canadian geographer
- Gary Slaymakerb. 1963GBjournalist, film critic, novelist and comedian (1963- )
- Emma SlaymakerGBresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,840 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,924 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,143 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #178,636 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Slaymaker?
- We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Slaymaker (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Slaymaker have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.1 thousand people bear Slaymaker in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled slaymaker.
- How common is Slaymaker compared with other names?
- In Guernsey, Slaymaker is the 2nd most common surname of 33 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Slaymaker mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘maker of slays’ (weaving implement), from ME sleye/slaye; first attested John Slaymaker 1379 PTY
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Slaymaker” — the 2nd most common surname in Guernsey. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.