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Around the world, Byrne (伯恩 , Byrne , بيرن , and others...) is quite a rare principally masculine, but scarcely feminine given name. The first name Byrne is habitual in Ireland, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name, Israel, where it is a rare largely masculine, but seldom feminine name, and Canada, where it is a very rare predominantly male, but very seldom female name. In absolute terms, it is the most numerous in China, the United States, and Ireland. Much more frequently, Byrne is the last name as well as the forename.
Byrne is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Burne Thompson , the fictional character in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures, Return of the Shredder, Part 1; Burne Thompson , the fictional character in the 1987–1996 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated television series and Björn .