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The BYRNES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,913 3046 0.004 40
United States (1880 census) 2,642 2314 0.005 53
Change since 1880 +8271 -732 -0.001 -13
Other Countries
Australia 2,888 542 0.018 177
United Kingdom 720 6781 0.002 16
Top States for BYRNES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,646 1018 0.009 87
Florida 791 2425 0.005 49
New Jersey 760 1087 0.009 90
California 744 3780 0.002 22
Pennsylvania 663 2118 0.005 54
Top States for BYRNES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 633 1330 0.010 100
New Jersey 760 1087 0.009 90
Connecticut 299 1335 0.009 88
New York 1,646 1018 0.009 87
Rhode Island 90 1660 0.009 86

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

Classification and Origin of BYRNES

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 BYRNES 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 BYRNES 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 BYRNES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 140 1.28
Mixed Race 92 0.84
Black/African American 60 0.55
Asian/Pacific 48 0.44
Native American/Alaskan 37 0.34
White (Caucasian) 10,537 96.55

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

Meaning of BYRNES in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BYRNES.

Similar names to BYRNES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BYRNES.

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 BYRNES

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