Airy

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Airy is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico. Recorded meaning: Consisting of air.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal
  • MXMexico

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
57 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Consisting of air.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Airy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Airy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico——Airy57
PT Portugal——Airy1
US United States—109—42
BR Brazil—41—19
ES Spain—28—23
IN India—20—1

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Airy is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Âirÿ

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Airy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, French form of Agerico.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1800185019001950George Biddell Airy, b. 1801Wilfrid Airy, b. 1836Osmund Airy, b. 1845Anna Airy, b. 1882Christopher Airy, b. 1934Airy Routier, b. 1945

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(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Airy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000109#140,756
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020108#150,935
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010105#154,907
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—22#10,560
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—20#79,283
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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

What does the name Airy mean, and where does it come from?
Consisting of air. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Airy have the most bearers?
Airy is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled airy.

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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, “Airy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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