Ayers

36,980 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ayers in the 2020 census, making it the 924th most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,083.

By the numbers

People: 36,980
Rank: 924th
How common: 1 in 8,083
Per 100,000: 12.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ayers described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.8%
Black, not Hispanic 11.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Ayers

Kevin Ayers (1944–2013)English singer-songwriter, record producer
Roy Ayers (1940–2025)American funk, soul, and jazz composer, vibraphone player, and music producer
Bill Ayers (born 1944)professor and activist
Nichole Ayers (born 1988)US Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut
Roy E. Ayers (1882–1955)American politician
Dick Ayers (1924–2014)American comic book artist

People named Ayers with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ayers

Ayer
Aye

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.