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    The surname Byland

    An English place surname, carried by 523 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B453

    Byland: #41,579 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Byland #41,579, 523 people Byland: #41,579 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Byland #41,579, 523 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Byland is more common than 74.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from several minor places in England, perhaps from Old English byġe (“curve, bend”) + land (“land”).

    Byland 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 523 people named Byland in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 590,336 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 514.

    #41,579
    rank among US surnames
    523
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.8%
    change since 2000 (was #40,139)

    Who is named Byland

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    94% of people named Byland identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.2%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Byland

    Byland has the Soundex code B453, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B453.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Byland come from?
    Habitational surname from several minor places in England, perhaps from Old English byġe (“curve, bend”) + land (“land”).
    How common is the surname Byland?
    523 people in the United States had the surname Byland in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 590,336 Americans. It ranked 41,579th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Byland?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Byland identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Byland?
    Byland is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Byland getting more or less common?
    More common. 514 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 523 in 2010, up 1.8%.