The surname Byun
A Korean surname, carried by 2,082 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex B500
Origin
Korean origin
Borrowed from Korean 변 (byeon).
One of 42 Korean surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,082 people named Byun in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 148,293 Americans. That is up 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,764.
Who is named Byun
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Byun identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 1.7% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as two or more races.
- Asian and Pacific Islander 96%
- White (not Hispanic) 1.7%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Byun has the Soundex code B500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B500.
Other Korean surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Byun come from?
- Borrowed from Korean 변 (byeon).
- How common is the surname Byun?
- 2,082 people in the United States had the surname Byun in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 148,293 Americans. It ranked 14,363rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Byun?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Byun identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 1.7% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Byun getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,764 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,082 in 2010, up 18%.