Byron

Where Byron comes from

A habitational surname from Old English byrum (“at the byre or cattleshed”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Byron
  • 2 syllables
Byron through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #225 among boys, with 52 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #193
    66 babies named Byron, its best rank.
  3. 1942
    Byron Dorgan born
    American author, businessman, and politician
  4. 1968
    Byron Howard born
    American film director and animator
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage.
Namesakes
  • Byron Howard · American film director and animator, born 1968
  • Byron Mann · Chinese-American actor
  • Byron Dorgan · American author, businessman, and politician, born 1942
  • Byron Scott · American basketball player and coach, born 1961
  • Byron Moreno · Ecuadorian football referee, born 1969

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.