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The O'BYRNE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,193 20629 0 4
United States (1880 census) 77 37316 0 2
Change since 1880 +1116 +16687 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 2 236552 0 0
United Kingdom 66 25369 0 1
Top States for O'BYRNE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 142 16034 0.000 4
New York 127 13984 0.001 7
Florida 80 19533 0.001 5
New Jersey 77 11949 0.001 9
Minnesota 68 10718 0.001 14
Top States for O'BYRNE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 8 9156 0.002 16
Minnesota 68 10718 0.001 14
New Mexico 19 7285 0.001 10
New Jersey 77 11949 0.001 9
Washington 48 13892 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of O'BYRNE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 33 2.77
Mixed Race 10 0.84
Asian/Pacific 7 0.59
White (Caucasian) 1,142 95.73
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of O'BYRNE in historical publications

O'BYRNE. "The O'Byrncs were the formidable chieftains of that last subjugated district of Ireland, now tlie county of Wicklow ; the present barony of Ballinacor and the Ranilogh were possessed exclusively by them, and they, with the O'Tooles, the territorial lords of the remainder of this county,maintained,for nearly four centuries, an unceasing war against Dublin and the English Pale." The surname first appears in 1119. D'Alton.

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 O'BYRNE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as O'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 O'BYRNE

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