Ayres
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘son of Ayer’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɛɹz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ayres is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 16K
- USUnited States1 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 396 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘son of Ayer’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ayres 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 848 | — | 7 |
| US United States | — | 11,139 | 1 in 30K | 11K | Ayres | 396 |
| GB United Kingdom | #974 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Ayres | 215 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Ayres | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Ayres | 138 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 526 | 1 in 6.4K | 526 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Ayres | 39 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Ayres 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 English, Lew, US actor
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Agnes Ayresb. 1898USAmerican actress (1892–1940)
- Lew Ayresb. 1908USAmerican actor (1908–1996)
- Gillian Ayresb. 1930GBBritish artist (1930-2018)
- Gerald Ayresb. 1936USAmerican film producer
- Rosalind Ayresb. 1946GBBritish actress
- Leah Ayresb. 1957USAmerican actress
- Tony Ayresb. 1961AUAustralian film director
- Chris Ayresb. 1965USAmerican actor
- Greg Ayresb. 1968USAmerican voice actor and singer
- Benjamin Ayresb. 1977CACanadian actor
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 33 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 17K | #914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,241 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #3,025 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,277 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 526 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- What does the name Ayres mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘son of Ayer’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Ayres?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛɹz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ayres have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Ayres in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ayres most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ayres is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 6.4 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ayres?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,139 people named Ayres in 2010, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Ayres compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Ayres is the 974th most common surname of 1,272,424 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ayresThe 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, “Ayres” — the 974th most common surname in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.