Blythe (surname) explained

Blythe is an English surname.

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 58.1% of all known bearers of the surname Blythe were residents of the United States (frequency 1:32,907), 24.0% of England (1:12,271), 6.1% of Australia (1:20,745), 3.3% of Canada (1:58,971), 2.4% of Jamaica (1:6,454), 1.3% of Scotland (1:21,333) and 1.1% of New Zealand (1:22,751).

In England, the frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:12,271) in the following counties:

• 1. Cumbria (1:4,362)
• 2. Tyne and Wear (1:4,908)
• 3. Cheshire (1:5,072)
• 4. Northumberland (1:5,876)
• 5. North Yorkshire (1:6,261)
• 6. County Durham (1:6,465)
• 7. Lincolnshire (1:6,820)
• 8. Nottinghamshire (1:7,757)
• 9. Norfolk (1:8,388)
• 10. East Riding of Yorkshire (1:8,392)
• 11. South Yorkshire (1:8,427)
• 12. Kent (1:8,515)
• 13. Rutland (1:9,486)
• 14. West Yorkshire (1:9,976)
• 15. Merseyside (1:10,365)
• 16. Gloucestershire (1:10,496)
• 17. Cambridgeshire (1:10,878)
• 18. East Sussex (1:11,379)
• 19. Leicestershire (1:11,489)
• 20. Warwickshire (1:11,826)
• 21. Hertfordshire (1:11,831)

In the United States, the frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:32,907) in the following states:^[1]

• 1. Kentucky (1:8,270)
• 2. North Carolina (1:11,002)
• 3. Delaware (1:14,597)
• 4. Iowa (1:15,010)
• 5. Indiana (1:16,313)
• 6. Alabama (1:17,446)
• 7. Virginia (1:18,318)
• 8. Arkansas (1:19,473)
• 9. Kansas (1:20,879)
• 10. Mississippi (1:21,264)
• 11. Oregon (1:21,994)
• 12. Montana (1:22,653)
• 13. Ohio (1:23,491)
• 14. Oklahoma (1:24,570)
• 15. Tennessee (1:24,973)
• 16. Nebraska (1:25,468)
• 17. Georgia (1:27,862)
• 18. Texas (1:29,336)
• 19. New Mexico (1:30,514)
• 20. Illinois (1:31,751)

People

• Adam Blythe (born 1989), British road cyclist
• Arthur Blythe (1940–2017), American jazz alto saxophonist and composer
• Betty Blythe (1893–1972), American actress
• Bill Clinton (William Blythe, born 1946), 42nd American president
• Colin Blythe (1879–1917), English cricketer
• Daniel Blythe (born 1969), British author
• Domini Blythe (1947–2010), British-born Canadian actress
• Ernest Blythe (1889–1975), Irish politician
• Geoffrey Blythe (died c. 1530), Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry
• Geoffrey Blythe (divine) (died 1542), English clergyman
• Jimmy Blythe (1901–1931), American jazz and boogie woogie pianist
• John Blythe (disambiguation), several people
• Mabel Blythe (1930–2004), Sri Lankan actress and singer
• Matty Blythe, English rugby league player
• Nils Blythe (born 1956), British journalist and Director of Communications at the Bank of England
• Peter Blythe (1934–2004), British character actor
• Randy Blythe (born 1971), vocalist of American heavy metal band Lamb of God and side-project band Halo of Locusts
• Robert Blythe (actor), Welsh actor
• Ronald Blythe (1922–2023), British writer and editor
• Samuel George Blythe (1868–1947), American writer and newspaperman
• Stephanie Blythe (born 1970), American mezzo-soprano opera singer
• Thomas Henry Blythe (1822–1883), American entrepreneur, pioneer of irrigation in the Colorado River valley. Blythe, California is named after him.
• Wilfred Lawson Blythe (1896–1975), British colonial administrator.
• William Blythe (disambiguation), multiple people with the name

Fictional characters:

• Gilbert Blythe, fictional character in Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables novel series

See also

• Blyth (surname)
• Albert Blithe (1923–1967), career soldier in the United States Army

Notes and References

1. https://forebears.io/surnames/blythe Blythe surname distribution