Blythe
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Blythe is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. Recorded meaning: ‘person from Blyth’, or from a nickname for someone happy or cheerful.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 368 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘person from Blyth’, or from a nickname for someone happy or cheerful.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Blythe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4 | Blythe | 182 |
| US United States | — | 7.9K | Blythe | 368 |
| CA Canada | — | 1 | Blythe | 83 |
| FI Finland | — | 30 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 23 | — | 19 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Blythe is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Any of a number of places in England and the United States.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Old English; joyous, cheerful
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Betty Blytheb. 1893USِAmerican actress (1893–1972)
- William Jefferson Blythe Jr.b. 1918USbirth father of 42nd U.S. President Bill Clinton (1918–1946)
- Virginia Clinton Kelleyb. 1923USnot in their usual namemother of U.S. president Bill Clinton (1923–1994)
- Peter Blytheb. 1934GBBritish actor (1934–2004)
- Blythe Dannerb. 1943USAmerican actress (born 1943)
- Bill Clintonb. 1946USnot in their usual namePresident of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1946)
- Blythe Mastersb. 1969GBeconomist
- Randy Blytheb. 1971USAmerican vocalist
- Blythe Hartleyb. 1982CACanadian diver
- Blythe Auffarthb. 1985USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Blythe mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Blyth’, or from a nickname for someone happy or cheerful. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Blythe have the most bearers?
- Blythe is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled blythe.
What do you want to know about Blythe?
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Blythe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.