The surname Carberry
A patronymic surname, carried by 2,696 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex C616
Origin
From Scottish Gaelic craobh (“tree”) + barran (“hedge”). The surname can also be an Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cairbre (“descendant of Cairbre”).
Carberry is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,696 people named Carberry in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 114,520 Americans. That is down 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,823.
Who is named Carberry
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Carberry identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.8%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Carberry has the Soundex code C616, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C616.
Questions
- Where does the surname Carberry come from?
- From Scottish Gaelic craobh (“tree”) + barran (“hedge”). The surname can also be an Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cairbre (“descendant of Cairbre”).
- How common is the surname Carberry?
- 2,696 people in the United States had the surname Carberry in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 114,520 Americans. It ranked 11,627th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Carberry?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Carberry identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Carberry?
- Carberry is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
- Is the surname Carberry getting more or less common?
- Less common. 2,823 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,696 in 2010, down 4.5%.