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    The surname Bagby

    A Norse place surname, carried by 5,542 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B210

    Bagby: #6,174 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Bagby #6,174, 5,542 people Bagby: #6,174 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Bagby #6,174, 5,542 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bagby is more common than 96.2% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

    From the Old Norse personal name Baggi + býr (“farmstead”); compare Begbie, which shares the same etymology.

    Bagby 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 5,542 people named Bagby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 55,710 Americans. That is down 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,584.

    #6,174
    rank among US surnames
    5,542
    people in 2010
    1.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.8%
    change since 2000 (was #5,696)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,170Celis5,54655,670
    #6,171Fouts5,54555,680
    #6,172Viramontes5,54455,690
    #6,174Bagby5,54255,710

    Who is named Bagby

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

    69% of people named Bagby identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 25%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Bagsby

    Surnames that sound like Bagby

    Bagby has the Soundex code B210, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B210.

    Other Norse surnames

    All 126 Norse surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bagby come from?
    From the Old Norse personal name Baggi + býr (“farmstead”); compare Begbie, which shares the same etymology.
    How common is the surname Bagby?
    5,542 people in the United States had the surname Bagby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 55,710 Americans. It ranked 6,174th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bagby?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Bagby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Bagby?
    Bagby is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Bagby getting more or less common?
    Less common. 5,584 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,542 in 2010, down 0.8%.
    What are other spellings of Bagby?
    Bagsby.