Byrne

Byrne is the 1,198th most common surname in the United States, shared by 28,742 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 10,400.

By the numbers

People: 28,742
Rank: 1,198th
How common: 1 in 10,400
Per 100,000: 9.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Broin (“descendant of Bran”), a personal name based on bran (“raven”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Byrne

Rose Byrne (born 1979)Australian actress
Gabriel Byrne (born 1950)Irish actor
David Byrne (born 1952)Scottish-American musician
Nicky Byrne (born 1978)Irish singer-songwriter, radio and TV presenter, dancer, and footballer
Roger Byrne (1929–1958)English footballer
Rhonda Byrne (born 1951)Australian writer and producer
Gerry Byrne (1938–2015)English footballer
Michael Byrne (1939–2026)British actor

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

Surnames like Byrne

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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.