Byron

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Байрон in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Byron is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name215K records spelled Byron15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ecuador, United States, Guatemala, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Byrón, Byrön, B'Yron, Byrôn, Bÿrön

• a separate given name16K records spelled Byron2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Byrōn

• German given name7.8K records spelled Byron2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Austria, Spain

  Also written Bÿron

• Greek given name1.9K records spelled Byron16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, South Africa

  Also written Βυρωνας, Vyron, Βύρωνας, Vyronas, Βυρων

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Byron is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, variant of BYROM; first attested William de Byrun 1240 FFY

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• In English, pi. of byre byre, and thus a topographic name for one living at such a place or occupational name for one employed there, a cowman. This name and its vars. Biron and

  as a name·The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

• Transferred use of the surname, first bestowed as a given name in honour of the poet Lord Byron (George Gordon, 6th

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In English, A surname from Old English.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, George Gordon, Lord, English

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• H. B. Warnerb. 1875GBnot in their usual nameEnglish film and theatre actor (1876–1958)
• Byron Haskinb. 1899USAmerican film and television director (1899-1984)
• Gig Youngb. 1913USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1913–1978)
• James Deanb. 1931USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1931–1955)
• Byron Beckb. 1945USAmerican basketball player (born 1945)
• Bill Leeb. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican businessman and politician (born 1959)
• Byron Scottb. 1961USAmerican basketball player and coach
• Byron Howardb. 1968USAmerican film director and animator
• Benjamin Byron Davisb. 1972USAmerican actor
• Byron MannUSChinese-American actor

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 817 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Byron?

We estimate roughly 104 thousand people bear Byron (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Byron have the most bearers?

We estimate about 58 thousand people bear Byron in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled byron.

Where is Byron most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Byron is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 394 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Byron compared with other names?

In the United States, Byron is the 594th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Byron a male or female name?

Byron is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Byron mean?

Recorded meaning: ‘Person who lives by cowsheds’, or ‘person from Byrom or Byram’, both from Old English byrum ‘at the cowsheds’.