How common is the surname Bussey?

7,219 people in the United States had the surname Bussey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,768 Americans. It ranked 4,880th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Bussey getting more or less common?

More common. 7,063 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,219 in 2010, up 2.2%.

The surname Bussey

A Norman place surname, carried by 7,219 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bussey is more common than 97% of them.

Origin

Norman origin

Habitational surname of Norman origin, from any of various places in Normandy called Boucé or Bucy.

Bussey is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 128 Norman surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,219 people named Bussey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 42,768 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,063.

#4,880

rank among US surnames

7,219

people in 2010

2.5

per 100,000 Americans

+2.2%

change since 2000 (was #4,595)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,871	Harwell	7,234	42,680
#4,872	Knotts	7,232	42,692
#4,873	Bobbitt	7,230	42,703
#4,874	Rosenberger	7,228	42,715
#4,875	Michels	7,225	42,733
#4,876	Sturdivant	7,223	42,745
#4,877	Hammock	7,222	42,751

Who is named Bussey

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

58% of people named Bussey identified as white (not Hispanic), 36% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 58%
Black (not Hispanic) 36%
Two or more races 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
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

Bussie

Surnames that sound like Bussey

Bussey has the Soundex code B200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B200.

Other Norman surnames

All 128 Norman surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Bussey come from?: Habitational surname of Norman origin, from any of various places in Normandy called Boucé or Bucy.
How common is the surname Bussey?: 7,219 people in the United States had the surname Bussey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,768 Americans. It ranked 4,880th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bussey?: In the 2010 Census, 58% of people named Bussey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 36% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Bussey?: Bussey is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Bussey getting more or less common?: More common. 7,063 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,219 in 2010, up 2.2%.
What are other spellings of Bussey?: Bussie.