Byres Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Byers surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

What Byres means

Anyone researching Byres should also look under Byers. The family name meaning is “Of the cowshed”, the same as for Byers.

Before spelling was fixed, Byers was also written Byres. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The same family of names includes Byars and Byer.

Want more than a summary? See the Byres family name pack.