Etymology

Byron

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Today it means: A surname from Old English. Full definition →

Old English byrum
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  1. Old English · inherited frombyrum“at the byre or cattleshed”
  2. English todayByron

A habitational surname from Old English byrum (“at the byre or cattleshed”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.