# Astbury (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/astbury/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 319 |
| US rank (2010) | 62,714 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 967,854 people |
| Change since 2000 | +13% (283 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Asbury |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from the village of Astbury in Cheshire, from Old English ēast (“east”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Astbury in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 89% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.2% |
| Two or more races | 4.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Astbury in the United Kingdom.

## People named Astbury

- William Astbury, British biochemist (1898-1961)

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.