# Byron (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/byron/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | English |
| Meaning | “at the byre”, “cattleshed” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbaɪɹən/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 82,541 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 82,238 / 303 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,433, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

A habitational surname from Old English byrum (“at the byre or cattleshed”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 7 | 7,640 |
| 1978 | 10 | 6,000 |
| 1979 | 12 | 5,460 |
| 1980 | 5 | 10,581 |
| 1981 | 8 | 7,485 |
| 1982 | 6 | 9,368 |
| 1983 | 16 | 4,497 |
| 1984 | 7 | 8,267 |
| 1985 | 7 | 8,451 |
| 1986 | 7 | 8,646 |
| 1987 | 6 | 10,005 |
| 1988 | 7 | 9,376 |
| 1989 | 7 | 9,813 |
| 1990 | 5 | 13,257 |
| 1992 | 5 | 13,588 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 512 | 505 |
| 2012 | 481 | 543 |
| 2013 | 515 | 516 |
| 2014 | 402 | 653 |
| 2015 | 457 | 599 |
| 2016 | 385 | 670 |
| 2017 | 399 | 649 |
| 2018 | 324 | 737 |
| 2019 | 347 | 711 |
| 2020 | 294 | 790 |
| 2021 | 339 | 751 |
| 2022 | 264 | 891 |
| 2023 | 291 | 836 |
| 2024 | 275 | 878 |
| 2025 | 233 | 981 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 98 | 407 |
| 2012 | 71 | 522 |
| 2013 | 72 | 514 |
| 2014 | 63 | 566 |
| 2015 | 71 | 538 |
| 2016 | 67 | 558 |
| 2017 | 55 | 644 |
| 2018 | 34 | 887 |
| 2019 | 34 | 874 |
| 2020 | 30 | 944 |
| 2021 | 38 | 825 |
| 2022 | 29 | 1,011 |
| 2023 | 17 | 1,461 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 13 | 1,897 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Բայրոն
- Chinese: 拜倫 /拜伦
- Greek: Βύρων, Βύρωνας
- Polish: Bajron, Byron

## People named Byron

- Byron Howard, American film director and animator
- Byron Mann, Chinese-American actor
- Byron Dorgan, American author, businessman, and politician (born 1942)
- Byron Scott, American basketball player and coach
- Byron Moreno, Ecuadorian football referee
- Byron Nelson, American golfer (1912–2006)
- Byron K. Lichtenberg, American astronaut and engineer
- Byron Beck, American basketball player (born 1945)
- Byron Haskin, American film and television director (1899-1984)
- Byron White, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and American football player (
- Benjamin Byron Davis, American actor
- Byron Janis, American musician (1928–2024)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.