The surname Fishburn
An English place surname, carried by 1,893 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex F216
Origin
English origin
From Old English fisċ (“fish”) + burna (“stream”).
Fishburn 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 1,893 people named Fishburn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 163,099 Americans. That is down 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,959.
Who is named Fishburn
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
89% of people named Fishburn identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 89%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
- Two or more races 1.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Fishbourn
- Fishbourne
- Fishburne
Fishburn has the Soundex code F216, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F216.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Fishburn come from?
- From Old English fisċ (“fish”) + burna (“stream”).
- How common is the surname Fishburn?
- 1,893 people in the United States had the surname Fishburn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,099 Americans. It ranked 15,471st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Fishburn?
- In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Fishburn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Fishburn?
- Fishburn is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Fishburn getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,959 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,893 in 2010, down 3.4%.
- What are other spellings of Fishburn?
- Fishbourn, Fishbourne and Fishburne.