Byrd
Byrd was last recorded in 1963, when 5 babies were given it; 962 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Byrd by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Byrd?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,113, in 1963; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1919, the peak
Byrd peaked in 1919, when 33 babies were given it (26 boys, #1,414 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | under 5 | 5 | #4,113 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,142 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 8 | #3,125 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 7 | #3,320 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 8 | #2,995 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 6 | #3,472 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 5 | #3,804 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 11 | #2,384 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 6 | #3,367 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 8 | #2,822 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | under 5 | 7 | #3,037 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 9 | #2,684 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 8 | #2,726 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 8 | #2,588 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 7 | #2,895 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 14 | #1,990 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 11 | #2,278 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 8 | #2,683 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,515 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 9 | #2,476 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 7 | #2,902 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 12 | #2,099 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 12 | #2,077 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 14 | #1,943 | |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,871 | 17 | #1,731 |
| 1933 | under 5 | 7 | #3,043 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 10 | #2,481 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 9 | #2,681 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 18 | #1,763 | |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,126 | 13 | #2,220 |
| 1928 | under 5 | 21 | #1,658 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 16 | #2,053 | |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,613 | 22 | #1,616 |
| 1925 | under 5 | 15 | #2,104 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 14 | #2,247 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 20 | #1,761 | |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,061 | 24 | #1,552 |
| 1921 | under 5 | 17 | #1,990 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 20 | #1,758 | |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,884 | 26 | #1,414 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,918 | 22 | #1,605 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,767 | 11 | #2,442 |
| 1916 | under 5 | 11 | #2,402 | |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,272 | 19 | #1,612 |
| 1914 | under 5 | 16 | #1,556 | |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,786 | 9 | #1,962 |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,596 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 5 | #1,775 | |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,460 | 6 | #1,441 |
| 1909 | under 5 | 8 | #1,094 | |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,158 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,315 | 6 | #1,114 |
| 1904 | under 5 | 5 | #1,232 | |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,331 | 5 | #1,150 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,821 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,966 | 8 | #978 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,290 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,273 | under 5 | |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,183 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,615 | 6 | #998 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,061 | 10 | #695 |
| 1894 | 15 | #789 | 8 | #795 |
| 1893 | 16 | #743 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | under 5 | 7 | #871 | |
| 1891 | 10 | #899 | 7 | #776 |
| 1890 | 10 | #878 | 5 | #1,024 |
| 1889 | 12 | #761 | 5 | #992 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,153 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | under 5 | 7 | #759 | |
| 1886 | 8 | #844 | 7 | #774 |
| 1885 | under 5 | 10 | #612 | |
| 1884 | 7 | #864 | 8 | #711 |
| 1883 | 12 | #562 | 7 | #735 |
| 1882 | under 5 | 8 | #712 | |
| 1881 | 5 | #845 | 9 | #605 |
| 1880 | 6 | #753 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Byrd a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 962 Americans recorded as Byrd, 26% are girls and 74% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Byrd: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Byrd, and how old are they?
An estimated 94 Americans named Byrd and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 338 people named Byrd (70 women and girls, 268 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 140 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,071 babies since 1880, Byrd is the most given (90% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Byrd and names like it
- Compare Byrd and ByardBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sByrd peaked in 1919.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Byrd since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Byrd.
- Names starting with BMost given first.