girls:
253 births since 1880
#5463 (4th percentile)
boys:
709 births since 1881
#3878 (15th percentile)
overall:
962 births since 1880
#6777 (12th percentile)
The name Byrd is the #6,777 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 962 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 12.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,878 (15.4% percentile) for all time with 709 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,463 (4.4% percentile) for all time with 253 births since 1880.
Byrd has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1881 for boys). Birth data for Byrd is available in 76 out of the 84 years between 1880 and 1963 (68 years for boys and 31 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Byrd has been given predominantly to boys, with 73.7% of all recorded births being male. In 1963, 100.0% of babies named Byrd were boys. Interestingly, until around 1882, the name was more popular for girls (55.0% girls from 1880 to 1881), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (74.3% boys from 1882 to 1963).
For boys, Byrd reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #514) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 86 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1963.
For girls, Byrd reached its peak popularity in 1893, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #298) with 71 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 100 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1934.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Byrd".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Byrd is pronounced as berd, which has 1 syllables.
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