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Baby name
Byron
Boy
Origin of the name
Byron was first an English surname, from the Old English, “at the cowsheds.” The poet Lord Byron made it famous.
Classic name
82,238births since 1880
1960sgeneration
No. 213rank at its peak, in 1964
Where babies named Byron are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Byron is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Byron is most common in Louisiana (2.9 times), Hawaii (1.9) and District of Columbia (1.8), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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