# Ayres (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/ayres/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 11,139 |
| US rank (2010) | 3,241 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 27,718 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.4% (10,989 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ɛəɹz/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Ayres in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 88% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 5.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Ayres in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.

## People named Ayres

- Lew Ayres, American actor (1908–1996)
- Agnes Ayres, American actress (1892–1940)
- Jeff Ayres, American basketball player (born 1987)
- Leah Ayres, American actress
- Rosalind Ayres, British actress
- Anna Jean Ayres, American Occupational Therapist with M.A. in Occupational Therapy and PhD in Educational P
- Chris Ayres, American actor
- Robert Ayres, American actor (1914-1968)
- Tony Ayres, Australian film director
- Gillian Ayres, British artist (1930-2018)
- Robert Ayres, American physicist and economist (1932–2023)

## Similar surnames

Ares, Aries, Ayers, Arias, Araujo, Arce, Arriaga, Araiza, Archie, Arceo, Argo, Ariza.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.