Name profile

Byron

A name meaning "place of the cow sheds".

Usage languagesEnglish
US rank (2025)#980

Meaning and history

From a surname derived from a place name meaning “place of the cow sheds” in Old English, Byron was the family name of the Romantic poet Lord Byron (1788–1824), author of Don Juan and many other works.

Popularity over timeUS births · boys
20062006: 493 births, rank #522
2007: 496 births, rank #523
2008: 617 births, rank #450
2009: 738 births, rank #401
2010: 565 births, rank #465
20112011: 512 births, rank #505
2012: 481 births, rank #543
2013: 515 births, rank #516
2014: 402 births, rank #653
2015: 457 births, rank #599
20162016: 385 births, rank #669
2017: 399 births, rank #649
2018: 324 births, rank #737
2019: 347 births, rank #711
2020: 294 births, rank #790
20212021: 339 births, rank #751
2022: 264 births, rank #891
2023: 291 births, rank #835
2024: 275 births, rank #877
20252025: 233 births, rank #980

Byron moved from #878 to #981 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1964, with 1,284 births.