Byron

“At the cattle shed or byre” — Old English origin

Boy's name · #981 in the US (2025) · Timeless

Byron holds its lane: charted since 1880 and rarely far from where it stands today (#981 in 2025). About 82,000 boys have carried it along the way. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Around the world: about 1 in 7,900 boys in Ireland (2025) · about 1 in 11,000 boys in Canada (2024).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 27 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Byrons

Byron Howard — American film director and animator
Byron Mann — Chinese-American actor
Byron Dorgan — American author, businessman, and politician (born 1942)
Byron Moreno — Ecuadorian football referee
Byron Scott — American basketball player and coach

In stories & tradition

Byron Gordon — Babylon 5
Byron — Pokémon
Byron (young) — Lord Byron

What Byrons become

Among 639 notable people named Byron:

Sports figures appear 1.93× more often than among typical names — e.g. Byron Scott, American basketball player and coach.

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