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The surname Atterberry

An English place surname, carried by 1,911 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex A361

Atterberry: #15,347 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Atterberry #15,347, 1,911 people Atterberry: #15,347 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Atterberry #15,347, 1,911 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Atterberry is more common than 90.5% of them.

Origin

English origin

Toponymic surname from a crasis of Middle English at (“at”) + ther (“the”) + bery (“manor house”).

Atterberry 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 1,911 people named Atterberry in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 161,562 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,717.

#15,347
rank among US surnames
1,911
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+11.3%
change since 2000 (was #15,627)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#15,340Mungia1,912161,478
#15,347McMiller1,911161,562
#15,355Lisi1,910161,647

Who is named Atterberry

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

53% of people named Atterberry identified as white (not Hispanic), 40% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 53%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 40%
  • Two or more races 4.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

  • Arterberry
  • Atterbury

Atterberry has the Soundex code A361, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A361.

Other English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Atterberry come from?
Toponymic surname from a crasis of Middle English at (“at”) + ther (“the”) + bery (“manor house”).
How common is the surname Atterberry?
1,911 people in the United States had the surname Atterberry in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 161,562 Americans. It ranked 15,347th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Atterberry?
In the 2010 Census, 53% of people named Atterberry identified as white (not Hispanic), and 40% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Atterberry?
Atterberry is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Atterberry getting more or less common?
More common. 1,717 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,911 in 2010, up 11%.
What are other spellings of Atterberry?
Arterberry and Atterbury.