Byrd vs Byrl
American parents have registered 962 Byrds since 1880, against 586 Byrls. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Byrd Byrl
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 78 years in which either name was published, Byrd for 54 years and Byrl for 24 years. The lead changed hands 26 times.
- 1880–1915 Byrd ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1923–1933 Byrl ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1934–1937 Byrd ahead
- 1938–1941 Byrl ahead
- 1950–1963 Byrd ahead, apart from one short spell
18 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Byrd | Byrl | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 962 | 586 |
| Most in one year | 33 | 30 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 100 | 80 |
| Median age today | 77 | 80 |
| Peak year | 1919 | 1917 |
| Best rank | 1,408th boys | 1,437th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1907 |
| Girls / boys | 253 / 709 | 53 / 533 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Byrls alive today are over 80; half the Byrds are over 77. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Byrd and Byrl.