Byrnè
surname · Latin script
Byrnè is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Broin (“descendant of Bran”), a personal name based on bran (“raven”).
- IEIreland≈1 in 181as Brian(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 253as Brian
- CACanada≈1 in 265as Brian
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Byrnè itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #57 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 681 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 181 (inferred from the name graph)
1,011,020 named Brian, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est., as Brian
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Brian in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more, Bryan in PH Philippines and Brayan in EC Ecuador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Broin (“descendant of Bran”), a personal name based on bran (“raven”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Byrnè counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #18 | 1,011,020as Brian | 1 in 329 | 1M | Brian | 681 |
| GB United Kingdom | #30 | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 253 | 4 | Brian | 383 |
| CA Canada | #18 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 265 | 11 | Brian | 378 |
| PH Philippines | #54 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Bryan | 184 |
| EG Egypt | #382 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 993 | — | Brian | 36 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 65,634as Bryan | 1 in 258 | 66K | Brayan | 79 |
| IE Ireland | #14 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 181 | — | Brian | 224 |
| NZ New Zealand | #19 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 271 | — | Brian | 176 |
1,011,020 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Byrnè mean, and where does it come from?
- Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Broin (“descendant of Bran”), a personal name based on bran (“raven”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Byrnè have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 million people named Brian, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Byrnè?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,011,020 people named Brian in 2020, about 1 in 329 residents.
- How common is Byrnè compared with other names?
- In the United States, Byrnè is the 18th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/byrn%C3%A8The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Byrnè” — the 18th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.