The surname Ellerbee
A surname, carried by 1,518 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex E461
Origin
Variant of Ellerby.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,518 people named Ellerbee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 203,390 Americans. That is up 8.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,404.
#18,286
rank among US surnames
1,518
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+8.1%
change since 2000 (was #18,246)
Who is named Ellerbee
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
49% of people named Ellerbee identified as white (not Hispanic), 46% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 49%
- Black (not Hispanic) 46%
- Two or more races 2.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
- 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
Ellerbee has the Soundex code E461, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E461.
Questions
- Where does the surname Ellerbee come from?
- Variant of Ellerby.
- How common is the surname Ellerbee?
- 1,518 people in the United States had the surname Ellerbee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 203,390 Americans. It ranked 18,286th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Ellerbee?
- In the 2010 Census, 49% of people named Ellerbee identified as white (not Hispanic), and 46% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Ellerbee getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,404 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,518 in 2010, up 8.1%.