How common is the surname Bixby?

4,086 people in the United States had the surname Bixby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,562 Americans. It ranked 8,114th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bixby?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Bixby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Bixby?

Bill Bixby, American actor and director (1934–1993), followed by Jerome Bixby.

Where is the surname Bixby most common?

Wikidata records people named Bixby in the United States.

Is the surname Bixby getting more or less common?

More common. 3,949 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,086 in 2010, up 3.5%.

The surname Bixby

An English place surname, carried by 4,086 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B210

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bixby is more common than 95% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Old English byxe (“box tree”) + Old Norse býr (“farm, town”).

Bixby 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 4,086 people named Bixby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 75,562 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,949.

#8,114

rank among US surnames

4,086

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

+3.5%

change since 2000 (was #7,758)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,106	Llanos	4,089	75,506
#8,110	Dunson	4,088	75,525
#8,113	Deans	4,087	75,543
#8,114	Rosenblum	4,086	75,562
#8,119	Mastin	4,085	75,580
#8,121	Klassen	4,084	75,599

Who is named Bixby

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

93% of people named Bixby identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 2.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Bixbys

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Bill Bixby
American actor and director (1934–1993)
Jerome Bixby
American short story writer, editor and scriptwriter (1923-1998)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bixby

Bigby

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

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Bixby come from?: From Old English byxe (“box tree”) + Old Norse býr (“farm, town”).
How common is the surname Bixby?: 4,086 people in the United States had the surname Bixby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,562 Americans. It ranked 8,114th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bixby?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Bixby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Bixby?: Bill Bixby, American actor and director (1934–1993), followed by Jerome Bixby.
Where is the surname Bixby most common?: Wikidata records people named Bixby in the United States.
What type of surname is Bixby?: Bixby is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Bixby getting more or less common?: More common. 3,949 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,086 in 2010, up 3.5%.