Byrnes

10,661 people in the United States were counted with the surname Byrnes in the 2020 census, making it the 3,312th most common in the country. That is about one person in 28,000.

By the numbers

People: 10,661
Rank: 3,312th
How common: 1 in 28,000
Per 100,000: 3.6

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Byrnes

James F. Byrnes (1882–1972)American politician
Darcy Rose Byrnes (born 1998)American actress
Brittany Byrnes (born 1987)Australian actress
Jim Byrnes (born 1948)American musician and actor
Edd Byrnes (1932–2020)American actor
Andrew Byrnes (born 1983)Canadian rower
Michael J. Byrnes (1958–2025)American Roman Catholic archbishop

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

Surnames like Byrnes

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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.