The BYARS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,573	4912	0.002	24
United States (1880 census)	1,175	4762	0.002	23
Change since 1880	+5398	-150	0	+1
Other Countries
Australia	33	34991	0	2
United Kingdom	230	15084	0.001	5

Top States for BYARS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	869	2719	0.004	42
South Carolina	759	879	0.019	189
Tennessee	555	1581	0.010	98
Alabama	522	1435	0.012	117
Georgia	442	2312	0.005	54
Top States for BYARS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	759	879	0.019	189
Mississippi	370	1206	0.013	130
Alabama	522	1435	0.012	117
Tennessee	555	1581	0.010	98
Georgia	442	2312	0.005	54

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BYARS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BYARS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BYARS in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BYARS by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BYARS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BYARS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BYARS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BYARS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	104	1.58
Mixed Race	94	1.43
Native American/Alaskan	70	1.06
Asian/Pacific	21	0.32
White (Caucasian)	5,214	79.32
Black/African American	1,070	16.28

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BYARS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to BYARS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BYARS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.