Byron - name meaning, origin

The boy's name Byron \b(y)-

is pronounced BYE-ron. It is of Old English origin, and its meaning is "at the byres or barn". Place name and surname often used as a given name. Lord Byron in the 1850s was a poet famous for his wildness and debauchery. Literary: the variant form Biron was the name of a character in Shakespeare's "Love's Labours Lost".

Byron has 10 variant forms: Beyren, Beyron, Biren, Biron, Buiron, Byram, Byran, Byren, Byrom and Byrum.

Baby names that sound like Byron are Baron, Byrn and Bron.

Byron is a very common first name for men (#275 out of 1220) and also a very common last name for both men and women (#5415 out of 88799). (1990 U.S. Census)

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