The AYER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,353	8968	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	1,663	3507	0.003	33
Change since 1880	+1690	-5461	-0.002	-21
Other Countries
Australia	21	49827	0	1
United Kingdom	81	24817	0	2

Top States for AYER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	288	3037	0.005	45
California	277	9587	0.001	8
Maine	262	980	0.021	206
South Carolina	235	2562	0.006	59
Florida	180	10257	0.001	11
Top States for AYER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	262	980	0.021	206
Vermont	124	831	0.020	204
New Hampshire	130	1530	0.011	105
South Carolina	235	2562	0.006	59
Massachusetts	288	3037	0.005	45

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called AYER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called AYER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called AYER in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a AYER by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of AYER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the AYER surname.

Ethnic distribution of AYER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	81	2.42
Black/African American	67	2
Asian/Pacific	60	1.79
Mixed Race	41	1.22
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.27
White (Caucasian)	3,095	92.31

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the AYER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

AYER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to AYER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as AYER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.