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    The surname Grigsby

    A Norse place surname, carried by 11,501 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G621

    Grigsby: #3,141 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Grigsby #3,141, 11,501 people Grigsby: #3,141 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Grigsby #3,141, 11,501 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Grigsby is more common than 98.1% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

    Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place in Lincolnshire, from an unclear first element + Old Norse bý (“farmstead”).

    Grigsby 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 11,501 people named Grigsby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 26,845 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 11,017.

    #3,141
    rank among US surnames
    11,501
    people in 2010
    3.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.4%
    change since 2000 (was #3,017)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,132Ellington11,52226,796
    #3,133Krieger11,52126,799
    #3,135Troutman11,51926,803
    #3,136Tello11,51226,819
    #3,137Nielson11,51126,822
    #3,138Cary11,50626,833
    #3,140Ruelas11,50526,836

    Who is named Grigsby

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

    68% of people named Grigsby identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 68%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 24%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Grigsby

    Grigsby has the Soundex code G621, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G621.

    Other Norse surnames

    All 126 Norse surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Grigsby come from?
    Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place in Lincolnshire, from an unclear first element + Old Norse bý (“farmstead”).
    How common is the surname Grigsby?
    11,501 people in the United States had the surname Grigsby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 26,845 Americans. It ranked 3,141st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Grigsby?
    In the 2010 Census, 68% of people named Grigsby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Grigsby?
    Grigsby is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Grigsby getting more or less common?
    More common. 11,017 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,501 in 2010, up 4.4%.