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The BYE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,704 8231 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 523 9305 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +3181 +1074 0 +4
Other Countries
Australia 575 2827 0.004 35
United Kingdom 1,984 2972 0.004 43
Top States for BYE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 536 1010 0.011 109
California 311 8709 0.001 9
Indiana 248 3173 0.004 41
Washington 198 3828 0.003 34
Illinois 168 7977 0.001 14
Top States for BYE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 149 477 0.023 232
Minnesota 536 1010 0.011 109
South Dakota 64 1735 0.008 85
Indiana 248 3173 0.004 41
Nebraska 66 3817 0.004 39

Notes

'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 BYE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BYE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BYE in Minnesota than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BYE by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BYE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BYE 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 BYE 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 BYE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 91 2.46
Mixed Race 50 1.35
White (Hispanic) 48 1.3
Asian/Pacific 26 0.7
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.32
White (Caucasian) 3,477 93.87

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

Meaning of BYE in historical publications

BYE. See by. But It seems also to have been a personal name, as Fil.' Bye occurs in H.R.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to BYE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BYE.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BYE

The following words are slight variants of BYE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.