The surname Burby
A Norse place surname, carried by 612 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B610
Origin
Norse origin
English habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place, probably from Old Norse in view of the suffix -by.
Burby 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 612 people named Burby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 504,486 Americans. That is up 8.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 564.
Who is named Burby
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Burby identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as two or more races and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 2.0%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Burby
Burby has the Soundex code B610, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B610.
Other Norse surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Burby come from?
- English habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place, probably from Old Norse in view of the suffix -by.
- How common is the surname Burby?
- 612 people in the United States had the surname Burby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 504,486 Americans. It ranked 36,525th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Burby?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Burby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as two or more races.
- What type of surname is Burby?
- Burby is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Burby getting more or less common?
- More common. 564 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 612 in 2010, up 8.5%.