Blythe

At the 2020 census, 7,669 Americans bore the surname Blythe — 4,490th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 39,000.

By the numbers

People: 7,669
Rank: 4,490th
How common: 1 in 39,000
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

English surname, from Old English blīþe (“merry”). Many senses are derived from placenames, such as the River Blythe, all from the Old English adjective.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Blythe described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.8%
Black, not Hispanic 8.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Blythe

Betty Blythe (1893–1972)ِAmerican actress
Randy Blythe (born 1971)American vocalist
Adam Blythe (born 1989)racing cyclist
Arthur Blythe (1940–2017)American musician

People named Blythe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Blythe

Also a first name

Blythe has been given to 5,441 American babies as a first name since 1897, peaking in 2013. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.