Eyre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: salt lake, Australia (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Cook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua), 2022
/ɛəɹ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Eyre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- CKCook Islands≈1 in 7.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 18K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 30K
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
- 311 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Turks & Caicos Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Eyre
- English:/ɛəɹ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)salt lake, Australia
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Eyre is found
(measured from records)Eyre 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 | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Eyre | 212 |
| US United States | — | 2,374 | 1 in 140K | 2.4K | Eyre | 311 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 1 | Eyre | 137 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Eyre | 98 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Eyre | 23 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Eyre | 47 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #173 | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Eyre | 1 |
| CK Cook Islands | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | 2 | — | 2 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Cook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua). 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)Eyre 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 enm, plural of ey (“egg”)
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)- Edward John Eyreb. 1815GBBritish explorer and colonial administrator (1815–1901)
- Richard Eyreb. 1943GBBritish actor and director
- Wayne EyreCACanadian general
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Eyre?
- In English /ɛəɹ/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Eyre mean, and where does it come from?
- salt lake, Australia Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Eyre?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Eyre in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eyre. After it come United States, Australia, Canada and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Eyre?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,374 people named Eyre in 2010, about 1 in 140 thousand residents.
- How common is Eyre compared with other names?
- In Turks & Caicos Islands, Eyre is the 173rd most common surname of 3,662 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eyreThe 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, “Eyre” — the 173rd most common surname in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.