Ayre: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

If your family name is Ayre, its origin lies with Ayers, a long-established English surname.

What is the meaning of Ayre?

The family name meaning is “Heir”, the same as for Ayers. 636 Americans were listed as Ayre in the 2010 census. That puts it inside the top 50,000 US surnames.

How is Ayre related to Ayers?

Records show Ayre as one of the forms Ayers took over time. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. The same family of names includes Eyers.

Does every Ayre family have a crest?

Arms linked to Ayers and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Get the complete Ayre report, with a museum-style coat of arms.