Ayrton
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: a male given name of Brazilian usage
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aʝrton/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ayrton is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 23K
- BRBrazil1 in 43K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
4,963 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Airton, Yorkshire, from a farmstead on the River Aire; probably a Celtic or pre-Celtic river-name meaning 'strongly flowing'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
How Ayrton is read(measured from records)
Ayrton is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish56%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ayrton in Spanish.
- Portuguese27%
a male given name of Brazilian usage
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ayrton in French.
- English5.4%
Person from Airton, Yorkshire, from a farmstead on the River Aire; probably a Celtic or pre-Celtic river-name meaning 'strongly flowing'.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
from Airton in Kirkby Malham, West Riding of Yorkshire; first attested John de Ayrton 1379 PTY
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
John de Ayrton 1379 PTY; William Ayreton 1460 FrY. From Airton in Kirkby Malham (WRY).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
William Edward, English inventor;
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Hertha Marks, his wife, English
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ayrton counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 4,963 | 1 in 43K | 5K | Ayrton | 116 |
| AR Argentina | #878 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 117 | Ayrton | 61 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Ayrton | 48 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Ayrton | 13 |
| FR France | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 85K | 1.1K | Ayrton | 1 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 675 | 1 in 25K | 675 | Ayrton | 17 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Ayrton | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | #535 | 293 | 1 in 12K | 293 | Ayrton | 16 |
4,963 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Charles Tannockb. 1957GBnot in their usual nameBritish politician (born 1957)
- Ayrton Sennab. 1960BRBrazilian racing driver (1960–1994)
- Ayrton Andriolib. 1965BRBrazilian association football player
- Ayrton Ganinob. 1985BRBrazilian footballer and manager
- Ayrton Badovinib. 1986ITItalian motorcycle racer
- Ayrton Preciadob. 1994ECEcuadorian association football player
- Ayrton Statieb. 1994NLDutch-Curaçaoan footballer
- Ayrton Pinheiro Victorb. 1994BRBrazilian association football player
- Ayrton Lucas Dantas de Medeirosb. 1997BRBrazilian association football player
- Ayrton Simmonsb. 2001GBBritish racing driver (born 2001)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.9K | #2,751 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3.5K | #4,175 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 3.5K | #1,569 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.1K | #1,507 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 675 | #835 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 293 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 274 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 129 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 117 | #702 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20 | #2,751 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 16 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ayrton?
- A machine transcription gives /aʝrton/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Where does the name Ayrton come from?
- Person from Airton, Yorkshire, from a farmstead on the River Aire; probably a Celtic or pre-Celtic river-name meaning 'strongly flowing'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Ayrton have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named Ayrton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ayrton.
- Where is Ayrton most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ayrton is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Ayrton mean?
- In Portuguese, a male given name of Brazilian usage
- Is Ayrton a male or female name?
- Ayrton is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Ayrton?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,963 people named Ayrton in 2022, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Ayrton compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Ayrton is the 535th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ayrtonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ayrton” — the 535th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.