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    The surname Abernethy

    A place surname, carried by 2,613 people in the United States.

    4 syllables Soundex A165

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Abernethy is more common than 92.6% of them.

    Origin

    The first part of the name, Aber, is thought to be a Pictish word meaning "confluence," from Proto-Brythonic *aber + the name Nethy, a river in Scotland.

    Abernethy is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,613 people named Abernethy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 118,157 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,612.

    #11,960
    rank among US surnames
    2,613
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #11,141)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,952Botkin2,616118,022
    #11,954McMullan2,615118,067
    #11,957Schillinger2,614118,112
    #11,960Abernethy2,613118,157
    #11,965Germann2,612118,203
    #11,968Holtzclaw2,611118,248

    Who is named Abernethy

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    93% of people named Abernethy identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Abernethys

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Burgess Abernethy
      Actor, born 1987
    • Tom Abernethy
      American basketball player (born 1954)

    Notable Abernethys come mostly from Australia (1) and the United States (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Abernethy

    Abernethy has the Soundex code A165, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A165.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Abernethy come from?
    The first part of the name, Aber, is thought to be a Pictish word meaning "confluence," from Proto-Brythonic *aber + the name Nethy, a river in Scotland.
    How common is the surname Abernethy?
    2,613 people in the United States had the surname Abernethy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 118,157 Americans. It ranked 11,960th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Abernethy?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Abernethy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Abernethy?
    Burgess Abernethy, actor, followed by Tom Abernethy.
    Where is the surname Abernethy most common?
    Wikidata records people named Abernethy in Australia and the United States.
    What type of surname is Abernethy?
    Abernethy is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Abernethy getting more or less common?
    About as common. 2,612 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,613 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.
    What are other spellings of Abernethy?
    Abernathy.