The surname Bird

* As an English and Scottish surname, from the noun bird. * As an Irish surname, Anglicized/translated from several names erroneously thought to contain the element éan (“bird”) such as Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney), Ó hÉanna (see Heaney), Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan) and Mac an Déaghanaigh (see McEneaney). * Similarly translated from several other languages containing the word bird, such as German Vogel, French Loiseau, Czech Ptáček see Ptacek), Pták, Polish Ptak. * This also extends to Native American names, such as Lakota ziŋtkala (“bird”). Compare Eagle, Hawk; Blackbird, Kingbird, Redbird, etc.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

There were 33,457 people named Bird in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 9,228 Americans. That is down 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 33,962.

88% of people named Bird identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

• Larry Bird
  American basketball player and coach (born 1956)
• Brad Bird
  American film director, animator, screenwriter and producer (born 1957)
• Sue Bird
  American basketball player (born 1980)
• Andrew Bird
  American singer, musician and multi-instrumentalist (born 1973)
• Nikki Amuka-Bird
  British actress, born 1976
• Simon Bird
  British actor and comedian, born 1984
• Laurie Bird
  American actress, photographer (1953–1979)
• Billie Bird
  American actress (1908-2002)
• Robert Montgomery Bird
  American novelist, playwright, physician (1806–1854)
• Robert Byron Bird
  American chemical engineer (1924–2020)
• Poldy Bird
  Argentine writer (1941-2018)
• Betty Bird
  Austrian actress (1901-1998)

Notable Birds come mostly from the United States (11), the United Kingdom (4) and Israel (1).

Variant spellings

• Byrd

Bird has the Soundex code B630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B630.

Where does the surname Bird come from?

* As an English and Scottish surname, from the noun bird. * As an Irish surname, Anglicized/translated from several names erroneously thought to contain the element éan (“bird”) such as Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney), Ó hÉanna (see Heaney), Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan) and Mac an Déaghanaigh (see…

How common is the surname Bird?

33,457 people in the United States had the surname Bird in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 9,228 Americans. It ranked 1,041st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bird?

In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Bird identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

Who is the most famous person named Bird?

Larry Bird, American basketball player and coach (born 1956), followed by Brad Bird.

Where is the surname Bird most common?

Wikidata records people named Bird in the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel and 3 other countries.

Is the surname Bird getting more or less common?

Less common. 33,962 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 33,457 in 2010, down 1.5%.

What are other spellings of Bird?

Byrd.