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    The surname Bigby

    A Norse place surname, carried by 1,216 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B210

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bigby is more common than 86.8% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

    From the Old Norse personal name Bekki + býr (“settlement, town”).

    Bigby 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 1,216 people named Bigby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 253,903 Americans. That is up 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,168.

    #21,483
    rank among US surnames
    1,216
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.1%
    change since 2000 (was #20,982)

    Who is named Bigby

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

    51% of people named Bigby identified as Black (not Hispanic), 32% as white (not Hispanic) and 7.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 51%
    • White (not Hispanic) 32%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 7.8%
    • Two or more races 6.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bigby

    Bigby 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 Bigby come from?
    From the Old Norse personal name Bekki + býr (“settlement, town”).
    How common is the surname Bigby?
    1,216 people in the United States had the surname Bigby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 253,903 Americans. It ranked 21,483rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bigby?
    In the 2010 Census, 51% of people named Bigby identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 32% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Bigby?
    Bigby is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Bigby getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,168 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,216 in 2010, up 4.1%.