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    The surname Erby

    A surname, carried by 1,449 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex E610

    Erby: #18,867 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Erby #18,867, 1,449 people Erby: #18,867 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Erby #18,867, 1,449 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Erby is more common than 88.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,449 people named Erby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 213,075 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,406.

    #18,867
    rank among US surnames
    1,449
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.1%
    change since 2000 (was #18,230)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,858Zagorski1,450212,928
    #18,867Balistreri1,449213,075

    Who is named Erby

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

    69% of people named Erby identified as Black (not Hispanic), 25% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 69%
    • White (not Hispanic) 25%
    • Two or more races 3.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Erby

    Erby has the Soundex code E610, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E610.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Erby?
    1,449 people in the United States had the surname Erby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 213,075 Americans. It ranked 18,867th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Erby?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Erby identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 25% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Erby getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,406 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,449 in 2010, up 3.1%.