How common is the surname Gorby?

1,898 people in the United States had the surname Gorby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 162,669 Americans. It ranked 15,434th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Gorby getting more or less common?

More common. 1,817 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,898 in 2010, up 4.5%.

The surname Gorby

A surname, carried by 1,898 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G610

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gorby is more common than 90.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,898 people named Gorby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 162,669 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,817.

#15,434

rank among US surnames

1,898

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+4.5%

change since 2000 (was #14,935)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,429	Krout	1,899	162,583
#15,434	Mantilla	1,898	162,669
#15,442	Mealey	1,897	162,755

Who is named Gorby

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

97% of people named Gorby identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.1% as two or more races and 1.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Two or more races 1.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Gorby

Grob

Gorby has the Soundex code G610, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G610.

Questions

How common is the surname Gorby?: 1,898 people in the United States had the surname Gorby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 162,669 Americans. It ranked 15,434th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gorby?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Gorby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.1% as two or more races.
Is the surname Gorby getting more or less common?: More common. 1,817 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,898 in 2010, up 4.5%.