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The SAYRE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,133 4008 0.003 30
United States (1880 census) 2,042 2930 0.004 41
Change since 1880 +6091 -1078 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 28 39765 0 2
United Kingdom 4 33580 0 0
Top States for SAYRE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 1,641 839 0.014 145
West Virginia 706 379 0.039 390
California 596 5049 0.002 18
Florida 450 4732 0.003 28
Pennsylvania 330 4865 0.003 27
Top States for SAYRE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 706 379 0.039 390
Ohio 1,641 839 0.014 145
Montana 52 2527 0.006 58
Missouri 299 2647 0.005 53
Oregon 178 2579 0.005 52

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

Classification and Origin of SAYRE

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

Ethnic distribution of SAYRE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 157 1.93
Mixed Race 79 0.97
Asian/Pacific 68 0.84
Black/African American 45 0.55
Native American/Alaskan 21 0.26
White (Caucasian) 7,763 95.45

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

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

Meaning of SAYRE in historical publications

SAYRE. See Sayer.

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 SAYRE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SAYRE.

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 SAYRE

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