Byars
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OE byre, 'one employed at the cow-house' (cow-man), or from Byers Green (Durham) or the barony of Byres (East Lothian); first attested Elias de la Byare 1275 RH
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbaɪɝz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Byars is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 50K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- CZCzechia1 in 3.6M
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 Byars 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
6,683 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Баярс in RU Russia.
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)
- OEbyre(measured from records)
- ByersGreenDurham(measured from records)
from OE byre, 'one employed at the cow-house' (cow-man), or from Byers Green (Durham) or the barony of Byres (East Lothian); first attested Elias de la Byare 1275 RH
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Byars 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 | 6,683 | 1 in 50K | 6.7K | Byars | 12 |
| RU Russia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 53M | — | Баярс | 20 |
| CZ Czechia | 3 | 1 in 3.6M | 3 | Byars | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
6,683 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Byars is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, indefinite genitive plural of by
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Betsy Byarsb. 1928USAmerican children's writer (1928–2020)
- Tommy Byarsb. 1928US(1928-2017) American motorcycle racer
- James Lee Byarsb. 1932USAmerican artist (1932-1997)
- Hugh Gerard Byarsb. 1957GBBritish painter (born 1957)
- Keith Byarsb. 1963USAmerican football player (born 1963)
- Jana Byarsb. 1970USAmerican historian
- Derrick Byarsb. 1984USAmerican basketball player
- Jay Byarsb. 1986USAmerican reality television participant
- Trinity Byarsb. 2003USAmerican soccer player (born 2003)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.7K | #5,223 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.6K | #4,912 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.4K | #5,270 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #154,797 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #251,811 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 3 | #22,818 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #163,756 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Byars mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE byre, 'one employed at the cow-house' (cow-man), or from Byers Green (Durham) or the barony of Byres (East Lothian); first attested Elias de la Byare 1275 RH Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Byars?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbaɪɝz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Byars have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.7 thousand people named Byars, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled byars.
- Where is Byars most common?
- Byars is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 50 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Byars?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,683 people named Byars in 2010, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/byarsThe 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, “Byars”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.