Blythe (surname)
Appearance
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Blythe is an English surname.
Geographical distribution
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Blyth (surname)
- Albert Blithe (1923–1967), career soldier in the United States Army