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    The surname Airey

    A Norse place surname, carried by 672 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex A600

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Airey is more common than 79.1% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

    Habitational surname from a minor place in Cumbria, from Old Norse eyrará (“gravel-bank stream”).

    Airey is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 672 people named Airey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 459,443 Americans. That is down 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 704.

    #33,856
    rank among US surnames
    672
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -4.5%
    change since 2000 (was #31,167)

    Who is named Airey

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    90% of people named Airey identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Aireys

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Richard Airey, 1st Baron Airey
      British Army general (1803-1881)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Eary

    Surnames that sound like Airey

    Airey has the Soundex code A600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A600.

    Other Norse surnames

    All 126 Norse surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Airey come from?
    Habitational surname from a minor place in Cumbria, from Old Norse eyrará (“gravel-bank stream”).
    How common is the surname Airey?
    672 people in the United States had the surname Airey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 459,443 Americans. It ranked 33,856th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Airey?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Airey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Airey?
    Richard Airey, 1st Baron Airey, British Army general (1803-1881).
    Where is the surname Airey most common?
    Wikidata records people named Airey in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
    What type of surname is Airey?
    Airey is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Airey getting more or less common?
    Less common. 704 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 672 in 2010, down 4.5%.
    What are other spellings of Airey?
    Eary.