Last name: BYRON
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BYRON : This last name is indexed 52,537 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BYRON : English: habitational name from Byram (Yorkshire) named with Old English bȳrum ‘at the cattle sheds’ dative plural of bȳre ‘byre’. This name has occasionally been adopted as a Jewish surname presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish name.
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