I know that I keep asking these questions but Where does the last name Byrd come

Question:Byrd
English: variant spelling of Bird.

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Bird

English and Scottish: from Middle English bird, brid ‘nestling’, ‘young bird’ (Old English bridd), applied as a nickname or perhaps occasionally as a metonymic occupational name for a bird catcher. The metathesized form is first found in the Northumbrian dialect of Middle English, but the surname is more common in central and southern England. It may possibly also be derived from Old English burde ‘maiden’, ‘girl’, applied as a derisory nickname.

Irish: Anglicization of Gaelic ó héanacháin or ó héinigh, in which the first element (after ó) has been taken as Gaelic éan ‘bird’ (see Heneghan).

Jewish: translation of various Ashkenazic surnames meaning ‘bird’, as for example Vogel.

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English: variant spelling of Bird.

and

Bird

English and Scottish: from Middle English bird, brid ‘nestling’, ‘young bird’ (Old English bridd), applied as a nickname or perhaps occasionally as a metonymic occupational name for a bird catcher. The metathesized form is first found in the Northumbrian dialect of Middle English, but the surname is more common in central and southern England. It may possibly also be derived from Old English burde ‘maiden’, ‘girl’, applied as a derisory nickname.

Irish: Anglicization of Gaelic ó héanacháin or ó héinigh, in which the first element (after ó) has been taken as Gaelic éan ‘bird’ (see Heneghan).

Jewish: translation of various Ashkenazic surnames meaning ‘bird’, as for example Vogel.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

via
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/defa...

The page above will answer most of your surname origin questions, if you live in the USA. Then, unlike Blanche Dubois, you won't have to depend on the kindness of strangers.

I knew a Tommy Byrd in Tucson Az, but he died a couple of years ago in Bagdad while serving in the army.

Ted has already answered this question, so nothing more needs to be said on that. I just wanted to say that I am a direct descendant of William Byrd I, who immigrated to Virginia from England in the 1600s. He was considered the founder of my hometown of Richmond Virginia.