Byers
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person who lives by cowsheds, or person from Byers
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Byers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 9.3Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 9.8K
- USUnited States1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 446 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
32,174 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Person who lives by cowsheds, or person from Byers.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Byers 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 | #938 | 32,174 | 1 in 10K | 32K | Byers | 446 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Byers | 170 |
| CA Canada | #954 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Byers | 155 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Byers | 10 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Byers | 10 |
| IE Ireland | #888 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Byers | 35 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Byers | 55 |
| IS Iceland | #806 | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Byers | 3 |
32,174 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. 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)Byers is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, This name in England is derived from Old-French byre, cowman. In Scotland, whence Byers families in Ireland mainly came, it is from the old barony of Byers in East Lothian. It is fairly numerous in Ulster being mainly associated with Cos. Cavan and Armagh
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In Danish, 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)- Mortimer W. Byersb. 1877USAmerican judge (1877–1962)
- Eben Byersb. 1880USIndustrialist, amateur golfer (1880-1932)
- Horace R. Byersb. 1906USAmerican meteorologist (1906–1998)
- Frank Byers, Baron Byersb. 1915GBBritish politician (1915-1984)
- June Byersb. 1922USAmerican professional wrestler (1922-1998)
- Stephen Byersb. 1953GBBritish politician (born 1953)
- Steve Byersb. 1979CACanadian actor
- Trai Byersb. 1983USAmerican actor
- Grace Byersb. 1984USAmerican-Caymanian actress
- Jacqueline Byersb. 1989CACanadian actress
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 32K | #1,087 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 31K | #1,022 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 31K | #1,112 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Byers mean, and where does it come from?
- Person who lives by cowsheds, or person from Byers. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Byers have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 32 thousand people named Byers, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled byers.
- How common is the name Byers?
- In the United States, the national register counted 32,174 people named Byers in 2010, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Byers compared with other names?
- In the United States, Byers is the 938th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/byersThe 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, “Byers” — the 938th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.