Iyer

Iyer is the 5,371st most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,267 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 47,700.

By the numbers

People: 6,267
Rank: 5,371st
How common: 1 in 47,700
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Tamil

Borrowed from Tamil ஐயர், a caste of Hindu brahmins of Tamil origin.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 93.0%
White, not Hispanic 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.08%

Notable people called Iyer

Shreyas Iyer (born 1994)Indian cricketer
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari (born 1979)Indian filmmaker and writer
Vijay Iyer (born 1971)American composer, pianist, bandleader, producer, and writer
Divya S. Iyer (born 1984)Indian bureaucrat

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

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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.