Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Amburgey

    A German surname, carried by 3,051 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex A516

    Amburgey: #10,515 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Amburgey #10,515, 3,051 people Amburgey: #10,515 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Amburgey #10,515, 3,051 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Amburgey is more common than 93.5% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Variant of German Hamburger, with a French influence.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,051 people named Amburgey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 101,195 Americans. That is up 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,962.

    #10,515
    rank among US surnames
    3,051
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3%
    change since 2000 (was #10,037)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,510Ferrel3,054101,095
    #10,512Beagle3,053101,129
    #10,514Konrad3,052101,162
    #10,515Amburgey3,051101,195
    #10,517Rymer3,050101,228
    #10,520McMorris3,049101,261

    Who is named Amburgey

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

    96% of people named Amburgey identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Amburgey

    Amburgey has the Soundex code A516, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A516.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Amburgey come from?
    Variant of German Hamburger, with a French influence.
    How common is the surname Amburgey?
    3,051 people in the United States had the surname Amburgey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 101,195 Americans. It ranked 10,515th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Amburgey?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Amburgey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Amburgey getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,962 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,051 in 2010, up 3.0%.