The surname Busby
A Norse place surname, carried by 15,754 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B210
Origin
Norse origin
From Old Norse buskr (“bush”) + býr (“homestead, village”).
Busby 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 15,754 people named Busby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 19,598 Americans. That is up 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 15,424.
Who is named Busby
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
77% of people named Busby identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 77%
- Black (not Hispanic) 17%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
- Two or more races 2.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Buzby
Surnames that sound like Busby
Busby has the Soundex code B210, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B210.
Other Norse surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Busby come from?
- From Old Norse buskr (“bush”) + býr (“homestead, village”).
- How common is the surname Busby?
- 15,754 people in the United States had the surname Busby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 19,598 Americans. It ranked 2,320th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Busby?
- In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Busby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Busby?
- Busby is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Busby getting more or less common?
- More common. 15,424 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 15,754 in 2010, up 2.1%.
- What are other spellings of Busby?
- Buzby.