Byland Family History
Byland Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Old Byland (North Yorkshire) or Byland in Ashburton (Devon). Swedish: ornamental name from a compound of Old Norse býr ‘farm’ + land ‘land’. Dutch: variant archaic or Americanized of Bijland a habitational name from a farmstead called Bijland.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022