Byne
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Byne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): London; Devon. locative name from a lost settlement known as Byne, perhaps denoting a place where woodbine or honeysuckle grew, from Middle English bind ‘clingling plant’.
- INIndia1 in 189M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 189M (inferred from the name graph)
7 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): London; Devon. locative name from a lost settlement known as Byne, perhaps denoting a place where woodbine or honeysuckle grew, from Middle English bind ‘clingling plant’. There was one in West Grinstead (Sussex), whose name survives in Bines Farm and Bines Gate in West Grinstead and Bines Green in neighbouring Ashurst. Some of the following post-medieval early bearers may alternatively belong under (2).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Byne 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 7 | 1 in 189M | 7 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Byne | 11 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | 2 |
7 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Arthur Byneb. 1883USarchitectural historian
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 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #153,053 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #163,601 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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 Byne mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): London; Devon. locative name from a lost settlement known as Byne, perhaps denoting a place where woodbine or honeysuckle grew, from Middle English bind ‘clingling plant’. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Byne?
- A machine transcription gives /bin/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Byne have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 7 people named Byne, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Byne most common?
- Byne is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 189 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Byne?
- In India, the national register counted 7 people named Byne, about 1 in 189 million 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/byneThe 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, “Byne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.