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Byrne

Boys' name

Descendant of Bran

Byrne has been given to 98 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1914, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Byrne, 1975

1 in 604,000

Byrne over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Byrne: meaning, origin, and history

Descendant of Bran

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Byrne means

Byrne means “descendant of Bran”, associated with Broin.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

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

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Byrne (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Byrne is used in English.

Byrne comes through Irish Ó Broin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ó Broin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 98 boys were recorded with the name Byrne between 1914 and 1975. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1914; its best national rank was #2,685 in 1914.

How common is Byrne?

Byrne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1975, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1975
1 in 604,000
5 of 3,019,126 births
Among boys only
1 in 312,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1975
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
418,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Byrne sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1975 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 418,541 children born in 1975 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Byrne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Byrnes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Byrne was born before 1931 — so the typical Byrne is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
39
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Byrne rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1914 (7)
Years since peak
111
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,685
1914

Spellings of Byrne

Byrne is not the most common spelling — Byron is, with 30.0% against Byrne's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Byrne around the world

Where Byrne ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1951–1951
    #321
    in 1951

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Byrne by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,685
1914
Peak year
1914
7 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1975
All-time count
98
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Byrne

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Byrne

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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