The surname Frisby
A Norse place surname, carried by 3,964 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex F621
Origin
Norse origin
From Old Norse frisir (“Frisians”) + býr (“settlement”).
Frisby is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,964 people named Frisby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 77,887 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,784.
Who is named Frisby
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
69% of people named Frisby identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 5.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 69%
- Black (not Hispanic) 20%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.9%
- Two or more races 3.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Frisby has the Soundex code F621, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F621.
Other Norse surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Frisby come from?
- From Old Norse frisir (“Frisians”) + býr (“settlement”).
- How common is the surname Frisby?
- 3,964 people in the United States had the surname Frisby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 77,887 Americans. It ranked 8,350th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Frisby?
- In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Frisby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Frisby?
- Frisby is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Frisby getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,784 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,964 in 2010, up 4.8%.