Majcher: Surname History and Family Crest

If your family name is Majcher, its origin lies with Majchrzak, a Polish surname. Name scholars give the meaning as “Son of Melchior”. Before spelling was fixed, Majchrzak was also written Majcher. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Related forms: Majcherek.

Majcher ranked 36,900 in the 2010 US Census, with 605 people answering to the name. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames. Between 1891 and 2000, 186 babies born in France were registered as Majcher, with the most births in 1931–1940.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Majcher, so the heraldry linked to Majchrzak is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Majcher report, with a museum-style coat of arms.