The surname Byfield
An English place surname, carried by 1,241 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B143
Origin
English origin
From Old English bi (“by, near, next to”) + feld (“field”).
Byfield is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,241 people named Byfield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 248,788 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,089.
#21,157
rank among US surnames
1,241
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+14%
change since 2000 (was #22,143)
Who is named Byfield
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
62% of people named Byfield identified as Black (not Hispanic), 30% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 62%
- White (not Hispanic) 30%
- Two or more races 3.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Byfield come from?
- From Old English bi (“by, near, next to”) + feld (“field”).
- How common is the surname Byfield?
- 1,241 people in the United States had the surname Byfield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 248,788 Americans. It ranked 21,157th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Byfield?
- In the 2010 Census, 62% of people named Byfield identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 30% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Byfield?
- Byfield is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Byfield getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,089 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,241 in 2010, up 14%.