Byron
- Pronunciation
- [By-ron]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- From The Cottage
- Origin
- French
About the Name Byron
Byron is an English surname transferred to given-name use, derived from the Old French byre or buron, a word for a cattle shed or small farm dwelling, which in its Old English form byre referred to a cowshed or modest rural outbuilding. As a place-name element it described someone who lived near such a structure, and the surname form that developed from it eventually crossed the Atlantic as a given name carrying associations with the English Romantic tradition — particularly through the towering literary reputation of the poet Lord Byron, whose influence on Western literature lent the name a brooding, intellectual glamour that it has never quite shed.
Byron entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2000 and has remained continuously on the chart ever since, a remarkable twenty-five-year run that makes it one of the more durable names in this ranking tier. Its peak came in 2009 at #401, and more recently it has held steadily in the 800s: #882 in 2024, #835 in 2023, and #891 in 2022. More than 11,100 boys have been named Byron within the SSA top-1000 era. Variants include Biron, Buiron, and Byram for families who want a slight stylistic variation while keeping the name's core resonance. Byron continues to attract parents who appreciate literary heritage combined with a name that feels both vintage and effortlessly masculine.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Byron
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Byron by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2009 with 738 boys named Byron (boy rank #401 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #981 for boys (233 US births). That's 580 places below its 2009 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Byron Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Byron the strongest states are Nevada, Mississippi, Kansas.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nevada | #439 | 27 |
| 2 | Mississippi | #449 | 26 |
| 3 | Kansas | #567 | 16 |
| 4 | Louisiana | #591 | 50 |
| 5 | Maryland | #593 | 75 |
| 6 | Utah | #598 | 25 |
| 7 | Virginia | #598 | 93 |
| 8 | Massachusetts | #602 | 46 |
| 9 | Alabama | #619 | 40 |
| 10 | South Carolina | #628 | 30 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Illinois | #849 | 75 |
| 2 | Pennsylvania | #830 | 55 |
| 3 | Washington | #824 | 63 |
| 4 | North Carolina | #803 | 69 |
| 5 | Tennessee | #802 | 35 |
| 6 | Arizona | #781 | 47 |
| 7 | Georgia | #771 | 106 |
| 8 | Minnesota | #769 | 34 |
| 9 | Texas | #760 | 305 |
| 10 | Florida | #747 | 177 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Byron in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
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Compare Byron to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Byron against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).
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