The Bird Family Name

There is no single Bird family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

The meaning behind Bird

Ask a genealogist about Bird and the first name they will mention is Byrd. The family name meaning is “Bird (nickname)”, the same as for Byrd.

Spelled with “i” instead of “y”, Bird shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Related forms: Burd and Byrde. The 2010 US Census counted 33,457 people named Bird, ranking it number 1,041 among American surnames.

Get the complete Bird report, with a museum-style coat of arms.