Eyre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: salt lake, Australia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ajə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eyre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 31K
- CACanada≈1 in 67K
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 311 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Turks & Caicos Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
salt lake, Australia
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Eyre | 212 |
| US United States | — | 2,374 | 1 in 140K | 2.4K | Eyre | 311 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 1 | Eyre | 137 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Eyre | 98 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Eyre | 23 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Eyre | 47 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #173 | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Eyre | 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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
- William Leigh Williamson Eyreb. 1841GBBritish mycologist (1841-1914)
- Ronald Eyreb. 1929GBBritish director
- Peter Eyreb. 1942GBEnglish actor
- Richard Eyreb. 1943GBBritish actor and director
- Fred Eyreb. 1944GBEnglish footballer and manager (born 1944)
- Tommy Eyreb. 1949GBBritish musician (1949–2001)
- Chris Eyreb. 1968USTsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)/Inunaina (Arapaho) film director and producer (born 1968)
- Scott Eyreb. 1972USAmerican baseball player
- 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)
Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,263 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,941 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,596 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Eyre?
- A machine transcription gives /ajə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Eyre mean, and where does it come from?
- salt lake, Australia Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Eyre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Eyre in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eyre.
- 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 2026-10-10.