Byles
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person who lives on a promontory, from Old English bil ‘beak, promontory’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbaɪɫz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Byles is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 584K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 683K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
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 Byles 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
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 584K (inferred from the name graph)
570 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 Байлз 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)
person who lives on a promontory, from Old English bil ‘beak, promontory’.
Sources 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)
Byles 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.
570 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Byles 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.
A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Ronald Stewart Byles (fl. 1957).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, genitive singular of bȳl
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)
- Mather Bylesb. 1706USEnglish reverend (1707-1788)
- Mather Bylesb. 1734CAAmerican/Canadian academic 1735-1814
- Thomas Bylesb. 1870GBCatholic priest who remained on board the RMS Titanic as it was sinking (1870–1912)
- William Bylesb. 1872NZBritish painter (1872–1928)
- Marie Bylesb. 1900AUAustralian lawyer, explorer and conservationist (1900-1979)
- Ronald Stewart Bylesb. 1923GBBritish botanist (born 1930)
- Dan Bylesb. 1974GBBritish politician and adventurer (born 1974)
- Anine Gutubakken Bylesb. 1977NONorwegian journalist, contributing editor and photographer
- Rebecca Byles(est. 1762 - uncertain 1853)
- Gary BylesAUAustralian brigadier
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 648 | #37,037 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 609 | #35,053 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 570 | #38,754 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #60,781 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #66,947 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #262,821 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Byles mean, and where does it come from?
- person who lives on a promontory, from Old English bil ‘beak, promontory’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Byles?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbaɪɫz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Byles have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 570 people named Byles, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled byles.
- Where is Byles most common?
- Byles is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 584 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Byles?
- In the United States, the national register counted 570 people named Byles in 2010, about 1 in 584 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/bylesThe 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, “Byles”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.