Byron
Feminine · “at the cattle sheds”
Byron is given to boys far more often — 82,238 boys against 303 girls since 1880. See Byron as a boy name
Byron entered the US charts in 1918, peaked at #3658 in 1930, is rarely given in 2025 — given to only a few children a year.
How old is the name Byron?
Byron first appears in US birth records in 1918 — 107 years ago. The typical Byron alive today was born around 1972, making them about 53 years old. About 300 people named Byron are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Byron most popular?
Byron peaked in 1930, reaching #3658 nationally. See the whole 1930 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Old English byre (cattle shed) to Byron
The story of Byron
The Old English phrase behind it described a settlement 'at the byres' — the cow sheds — and it survived as the name of places and then of the family that held them, the Byrons of Nottinghamshire. Their most famous member, the poet Lord Byron, made the surname internationally recognizable in the early nineteenth century, and within a couple of generations parents on both sides of the Atlantic were using it as a first name. It has stayed in use in the United States without interruption since American name records begin, and it also took root independently in Spanish-speaking Latin America, where it is spelled exactly the same way.
Meaning
at the cattle sheds — from Old English byre, 'byre, cowshed'
The name comes from an English place name formed on Old English byre; older reference works sometimes render it more loosely as 'barn' or 'cottage', but the root is the same.
How the name formed
- Old English byrecattle shed
- Byrum / ByronEnglish place name
- ByronEnglish surname
- Byrongiven name
Related forms: Byron · Biron · Byron · Byron
Pronouncing Byron
BY-run
Stress on the first syllable, which rhymes with 'eye'. The second syllable is light — closer to 'run' than to 'ron'. It reads correctly on sight in English and in Spanish, where the same spelling is used.
Nicknames for Byron
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1918
- Most girls named
- 198316 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3658reached in 1930
- Change vs 1990
- 0.0%5 in 1992, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Byron in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Byron in Spanish — same name
- Biron in French — related form
- Byron in Italian — same name
- Byron in Portuguese — same name
Byrons among us
people named Byron are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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Fashion outlook
Byron sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
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- How many Byrons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 300 people named Byron are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Byron in 2025?
- Byron is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Byron with classmates?
- Byron will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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