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    The surname Anstey

    An English place surname, carried by 607 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex A523

    Anstey: #36,788 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Anstey #36,788, 607 people Anstey: #36,788 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Anstey #36,788, 607 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Anstey is more common than 77.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English ān (“one; a, an”) + stig (“path”). Compare Ansty, which shares the same etymology.

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

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 607 people named Anstey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 508,642 Americans. That is up 8.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 562.

    #36,788
    rank among US surnames
    607
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8%
    change since 2000 (was #37,319)

    Who is named Anstey

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

    96% of people named Anstey identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Ansteys

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Chris Anstey
      Australian basketball player (born 1975)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Anstie

    Anstey has the Soundex code A523, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A523.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Anstey come from?
    From Old English ān (“one; a, an”) + stig (“path”). Compare Ansty, which shares the same etymology.
    How common is the surname Anstey?
    607 people in the United States had the surname Anstey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 508,642 Americans. It ranked 36,788th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Anstey?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Anstey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Anstey?
    Chris Anstey, Australian basketball player (born 1975).
    Where is the surname Anstey most common?
    Wikidata records people named Anstey in Australia.
    What type of surname is Anstey?
    Anstey is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Anstey getting more or less common?
    More common. 562 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 607 in 2010, up 8.0%.
    What are other spellings of Anstey?
    Anstie.