How common is the surname Ayres?

11,139 people in the United States had the surname Ayres in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 27,718 Americans. It ranked 3,241st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Ayres?

Lew Ayres, American actor (1908–1996), followed by Agnes Ayres.

Where is the surname Ayres most common?

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

How do you pronounce Ayres?

Ayres is /ɛəɹz/, one syllable.

Is the surname Ayres getting more or less common?

More common. 10,989 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,139 in 2010, up 1.4%.

The surname Ayres

A surname, carried by 11,139 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ɛəɹz/ 1 syllable Soundex A620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ayres is more common than 98% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 11,139 people named Ayres in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 27,718 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 10,989.

#3,241

rank among US surnames

11,139

people in 2010

3.8

per 100,000 Americans

+1.4%

change since 2000 (was #3,025)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,232	Kopp	11,175	27,628
#3,233	Snowden	11,171	27,638
#3,234	Martell	11,158	27,670
#3,236	Boyles	11,156	27,675
#3,237	Camarena	11,154	27,680
#3,238	Moe	11,150	27,690
#3,239	Herzog	11,146	27,700

Who is named Ayres

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

88% of people named Ayres identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Ayress

11 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Lew Ayres
American actor (1908–1996)
Agnes Ayres
American actress (1892–1940)
Jeff Ayres
American basketball player (born 1987)
Leah Ayres
American actress, born 1957
Rosalind Ayres
British actress, born 1946
Anna Jean Ayres
American Occupational Therapist with M.A. in Occupational Therapy and PhD in Educational P, 1920–1988
Chris Ayres
American actor, 1965–2021
Robert Ayres
American actor (1914-1968)
Tony Ayres
Australian film director, born 1961
Gillian Ayres
British artist (1930-2018)
Robert Ayres
American physicist and economist (1932–2023)

Notable Ayress come mostly from the United States (8), the United Kingdom (2) and Australia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Ayres

Ayres has the Soundex code A620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A620.

Questions

How common is the surname Ayres?: 11,139 people in the United States had the surname Ayres in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 27,718 Americans. It ranked 3,241st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ayres?: In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Ayres identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Ayres?: Lew Ayres, American actor (1908–1996), followed by Agnes Ayres.
Where is the surname Ayres most common?: Wikidata records people named Ayres in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
How do you pronounce Ayres?: Ayres is /ɛəɹz/, one syllable.
Is the surname Ayres getting more or less common?: More common. 10,989 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,139 in 2010, up 1.4%.