The surname Ellerbe
A surname, carried by 2,560 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex E461
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,560 people named Ellerbe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 120,604 Americans. That is up 5.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,420.
#12,174
rank among US surnames
2,560
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+5.8%
change since 2000 (was #11,851)
Who is named Ellerbe
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
71% of people named Ellerbe identified as Black (not Hispanic), 23% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 71%
- White (not Hispanic) 23%
- Two or more races 2.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Ellerbe has the Soundex code E461, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E461.
Questions
- How common is the surname Ellerbe?
- 2,560 people in the United States had the surname Ellerbe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 120,604 Americans. It ranked 12,174th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Ellerbe?
- In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Ellerbe identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 23% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Ellerbe getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,420 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,560 in 2010, up 5.8%.