Blythe (surname)

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. 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