Byr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from byr ‘short’; earliest citation: late 13th c
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Byr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 13M(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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13M (inferred from the name graph)
3 people, 2026
Reference-verified
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from byr ‘short’; earliest citation: late 13th c. Kenric vyr.
Sources 1
- Welsh Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Byr 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Byr | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | listed | — | — |
3 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the welsh-surnames-morgan-1985 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)
Byr is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Hugh, w. of Ellis fyddar. PRLlCrossenny & Penrhos 2.1611. Anna, filiaJoh'n apJohn vyddar.
as a nameWelsh Surnames
In Welsh, short (of a person, of comparatively little height)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, accusative/dative singular of byrr
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, to carry out, perform, execute
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, tailwind, fair wind
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #253,950 |
| GB United Kingdom | Welsh Surnames (Morgan & Morgan, 1985) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Byr come from?
- from byr ‘short’; earliest citation: late 13th c. Kenric vyr. Recorded by Welsh Surnames.
- What does the name Byr mean?
- Recorded meaning: from byr ‘short’; earliest citation: late 13th c.
- In which country does Byr have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3 people named Byr, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Byr most common?
- Byr is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Byr?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Byr in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
What do you want to know about Byr?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/byrThe 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, “Byr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.