Hello, my name isGirlBoy
Byron
Pronounced /ˈbaɪɹən/
Rank in 2024
#882
Born in 2024
272
Peak year
1964 · #213
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 272 boys were named Byron, about 1 in every 6,306.
- It peaked in 1964 with 1,284 babies, ranked #213.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 82,006 boys have been named Byron since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Byron per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.5Greatest1901–27
- 0.5Silent1928–45
- 0.5Boomers1946–64
- 0.6Gen X1965–80
- 0.5Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 8,512 babies, 0.51 per 1,000. Silent: 9,295 babies, 0.45 per 1,000. Boomers: 19,865 babies, 0.53 per 1,000. Gen X: 16,383 babies, 0.60 per 1,000. Millennials: 13,944 babies, 0.46 per 1,000. Gen Z: 8,613 babies, 0.27 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,288 babies, 0.20 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
A habitational surname from Old English byrum (“at the byre or cattleshed”).
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈbaɪɹən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Byron, CC BY-SA 4.0.