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The BYRNE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 28,963 1106 0.011 107
United States (1880 census) 5,987 1030 0.012 120
Change since 1880 +22976 -76 -0.001 -13
Other Countries
Australia 8,162 149 0.05 499
United Kingdom 22,615 236 0.049 492
Top States for BYRNE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 3,241 459 0.017 171
California 2,713 1138 0.008 80
New Jersey 1,869 364 0.022 222
Florida 1,862 1045 0.012 117
Pennsylvania 1,801 671 0.015 147
Top States for BYRNE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,710 445 0.027 269
New Hampshire 275 644 0.022 223
New Jersey 1,869 364 0.022 222
Vermont 121 795 0.020 199
Connecticut 664 506 0.019 195

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

Classification and Origin of BYRNE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 588 2.03
Mixed Race 290 1
Asian/Pacific 142 0.49
Black/African American 96 0.33
Native American/Alaskan 61 0.21
White (Caucasian) 27,787 95.94

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

Meaning of BYRNE in historical publications

BYRNE. In vScotland, a topographical exjircssion, impljing the high part of a farm where young sheep are summered — or dry heathy pasture forweanlings. Celt, ln'ijn, a hill. Jamieson. The Irish family of O'Byrne claim from Hermon, the youngest son of Milesius. B.L.G.

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 BYRNE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BYRNE.

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 BYRNE

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