Ayre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) a medieval nickname for someone who was an heir; (ii) ‘person from Ayr’, southwestern Scotland
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/aʝɾe/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Ayre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 38K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 45K
- UYUruguay1 in 100K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 206 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(i) a medieval nickname for someone who was an heir; (ii) ‘person from Ayr’, southwestern Scotland
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ayre 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Ayre | 165 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Ayre | 21 |
| US United States | 636 | 1 in 523K | 714 | Ayre | 206 |
| AU Australia | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Ayre | 113 |
| CA Canada | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 122K | 1 | Ayre | 81 |
| PE Peru | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Ayre | 16 |
| UY Uruguay | 34 | 1 in 100K | 34 | — | — |
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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INE Uruguay — Apellidos 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ayre is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An area, called a sheading, in the north of the Isle of Man.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, Orkney form of air (“beach”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, alternative form of ere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, air (wind)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lad, wind
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Jack Ayreb. 1894CACanadian pianist
- Ian Ayreb. 1929AUAustralian tennis player (1929–1991)
- Bobby Ayreb. 1932GBEnglish footballer (1932-2018)
- Billy Ayreb. 1952GBfootball player and manager (1952-2002)
- Garry Ayreb. 1953CACanadian soccer player
- Colin Ayreb. 1956GBEnglish footballer (born 1956)
- Calvin Ayreb. 1961CACanadian businessman, Gambling Industry Founder, Blockchain Venture Capitalist
- Kristian Ayreb. 1977GBBritish actor
- Aaron Ayreb. 1992AUAustralian cricketer
- Riley Ayreb. 1996AUcricketer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 714 | #34,217 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 636 | #35,395 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 633 | #33,933 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 34 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Ayre mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) a medieval nickname for someone who was an heir; (ii) ‘person from Ayr’, southwestern Scotland Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Ayre?
- In Spanish /aʝɾe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Ayre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Ayre in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ayre.
- How common is the name Ayre?
- In the United States, the national register counted 636 people named Ayre in 2010, about 1 in 523 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ayreThe 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, “Ayre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.