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The EYRE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,256 12596 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 457 10397 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1799 -2199 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 609 2645 0.004 37
United Kingdom 4,980 1259 0.011 108
Top States for EYRE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 422 690 0.019 189
California 257 10128 0.001 8
Ohio 209 6517 0.002 18
Texas 106 14661 0.001 5
Illinois 103 12845 0.001 8
Top States for EYRE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 422 690 0.019 189
Wyoming 34 1860 0.007 69
Montana 27 5237 0.003 30
Idaho 31 5858 0.002 24
Vermont 14 6133 0.002 23

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of EYRE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the EYRE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the EYRE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of EYRE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 47 2.08
Mixed Race 29 1.29
Native American/Alaskan 25 1.11
Black/African American 24 1.06
Asian/Pacific 13 0.58
White (Caucasian) 2,118 93.88

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

Meaning of EYRE in historical publications

EYRE. For the traditional origin of this name in the circumstance of a Norman kuiglit having, at the battle of Hastings, succoured duke William of Normandy and given him air when he was in danger of .suffocation — see Eng. Surn. ii. 3. The true meaning of the name seems to be heir (hajres) since the H.R. give us the forms of Le Eyr, and Le Eyre ; in fact the 0. Eng. orthography usually rejects the initial h in this word. Brother, Cousin, Friend, and

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to EYRE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EYRE.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for EYRE

The following words are slight variants of EYRE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.