Blyden
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Blyden is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In U.S. Virgin Islands it is the 54th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Altered form of an English habitational surname such as Bladen or Blyton.
- USUnited States1 in 610K◐
- VIU.S. Virgin Islands1 in 2.3K
- GYGuyana1 in 23K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈594 ●
- Sources
- 179 ●
- 1 in 23K ◐
across 3 countries
6.9K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
Altered form of an English habitational surname such as Bladen or Blyton.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 545 | 6.3K rec. | 1 in 610K | 633 | Blyden | 179 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 226 | 209 rec. | — | — | Blyden | 31 |
| AU Australia | — | 34 | 37 rec. | — | — | Blyden | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | — | 34 | 37 rec. | — | — | Blyden | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 32 | 37 rec. | 1 in 23K | 32 | Blyden | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | 32 | 47 rec. | — | — | Blyden | 7 |
| DE Germany | — | 32 | 32 rec. | — | — | Blyden | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 17△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 1M | 17 | Blyden | 4 |
| BM Bermuda | — | 16 | 16 rec. | — | — | Blyden | 5 |
| BS Bahamas | — | 10 | 13 rec. | — | — | Blyden | 11 |
| VI U.S. Virgin Islands | #54 | 10 | 38 rec. | — | — | Blyden | 6 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | — | 0 rec. | — | 1 | — | 1 |
Roughly 545 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 610K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English7K86%
- Spanish3194%
- 2012%
- German661%
- Portuguese421%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 6,960 | 86% |
| Spanish | 319 | 4% |
| 201 | 2% | |
| German | 66 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 42 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Edward Wilmot Blydenb. 1832LRLiberian politician (1832-1912)
- Ianthe Blydenb. 1899USDanish/US Virgin Islands nurse (1899-1984)
- Allan Anthony Costlyb. 1954HNnot in their usual nameHonduran footballer
- Sylvia Blydenb. 1971SLSierra Leonean news publisher
- Stony Blydenb. 1993ISIcelandic musician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 633 | #37,769 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 545 | #40,204 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 466 | #43,629 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 32 | #593 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 17 | #52,298 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #110 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #181 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 8 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Blyden?
- We estimate roughly 594 people bear Blyden (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Blyden have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 545 people bear Blyden in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled blyden.
- How common is Blyden compared with other names?
- In U.S. Virgin Islands, Blyden is the 54th most common surname of 161 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Blyden mean?
- Recorded meaning: Altered form of an English habitational surname such as Bladen or Blyton.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Blyden” — the 54th most common surname in U.S. Virgin Islands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.