The surname Dibb
An English place surname, carried by 313 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex D100
Origin
English origin
Topographic surname for someone living in a hollow, from Middle English dybbe (“hole, hollow”).
Dibb 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 313 people named Dibb in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 986,407 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 284.
Who is named Dibb
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Dibb identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 3.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Dibb
Dibb has the Soundex code D100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D100.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Dibb come from?
- Topographic surname for someone living in a hollow, from Middle English dybbe (“hole, hollow”).
- How common is the surname Dibb?
- 313 people in the United States had the surname Dibb in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 986,407 Americans. It ranked 63,698th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Dibb?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Dibb identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- What type of surname is Dibb?
- Dibb is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Dibb getting more or less common?
- More common. 284 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 313 in 2010, up 10%.