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    The surname Antrobus

    A Norse place surname, carried by 566 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex A536

    Antrobus: #38,948 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Antrobus #38,948, 566 people Antrobus: #38,948 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Antrobus #38,948, 566 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Antrobus is more common than 76% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

    Apparently from either: * "within the woods", from the Norman French Entre-bois. (Eliding the last consonant verbally is only a latter-day variation in French originating in Paris.) * the Old Norse personal name Eindriði + buski (“bush, thicket”).

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

    One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 566 people named Antrobus in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 545,487 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 567.

    #38,948
    rank among US surnames
    566
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.2%
    change since 2000 (was #37,043)

    Who is named Antrobus

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

    86% of people named Antrobus identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Antrobus

    Antrobus has the Soundex code A536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A536.

    Other Norse surnames

    All 126 Norse surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Antrobus come from?
    Apparently from either: * "within the woods", from the Norman French Entre-bois. (Eliding the last consonant verbally is only a latter-day variation in French originating in Paris.) * the Old Norse personal name Eindriði + buski (“bush, thicket”).
    How common is the surname Antrobus?
    566 people in the United States had the surname Antrobus in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 545,487 Americans. It ranked 38,948th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Antrobus?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Antrobus identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Antrobus?
    Antrobus is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Antrobus getting more or less common?
    Less common. 567 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 566 in 2010, down 0.2%.