Avery
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) from the Anglo-Norman male personal name Auvery, Norman form of Alfred; (ii) a different form of Aubrey
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/eɪvəɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Avery is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6.7K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 7.4K
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 States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 481 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
39,564 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) from the Anglo-Norman male personal name Auvery, Norman form of Alfred; (ii) a different form of Aubrey
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Avery, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Avery 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #747 | 39,564 | 1 in 8.4K | 127K | Avery | 481 |
| GB United Kingdom | #686 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 14 | Avery | 229 |
| CA Canada | #780 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | 58 | Avery | 188 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Avery | 10 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Avery | 25 |
| AU Australia | #753 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | 10 | Avery | 165 |
| NZ New Zealand | #642 | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 23 | Avery | 75 |
39,564 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–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)
Avery is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Transferred use of the surname, which originated in the Middle Ages from a Norman French pronunciation of bAlfred.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A surname originating as a patronymic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
English: transferred use of the surname, which originated in the Middle Ages from a Norman French pronunciation of ALFRED .
as a word
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)
- Oswald Averyb. 1877USCanadian-born American physician and medical researcher
- Milton Clark Averyb. 1885USAmerican artist (1885–1965)
- Tex Averyb. 1908USAmerican animator and director (1908–1980)
- Val Averyb. 1924USAmerican actor (1924–2009)
- Margaret Averyb. 1944USAmerican actress
- James Averyb. 1945USAmerican actor (1945–2013)
- Steven Averyb. 1962USAmerican man convicted of murder and previously wrongly convicted of rape
- Lloyd Avery IIb. 1969USAmerican actor and convicted murderer (1969-2005)
- Julius Averyb. 1976AUAustralian screenwriter and film director
- Dylan Averyb. 1983USfilmmaker
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 71 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 40K | #878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 37K | #840 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 37K | #921 |
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
- What does the name Avery mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) from the Anglo-Norman male personal name Auvery, Norman form of Alfred; (ii) a different form of Aubrey Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Avery have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 40 thousand people named Avery, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled avery.
- How common is the name Avery?
- In the United States, the national register counted 39,564 people named Avery in 2010, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Avery compared with other names?
- In the United States, Avery is the 747th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Avery?
- A machine transcription gives /eɪvəɹi/ (IPA) for English.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/averyThe 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, “Avery” — the 747th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.