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    The surname Grisby

    A surname, carried by 1,377 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G621

    Grisby: #19,590 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Grisby #19,590, 1,377 people Grisby: #19,590 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Grisby #19,590, 1,377 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Grisby is more common than 87.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,377 people named Grisby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 224,216 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,232.

    #19,590
    rank among US surnames
    1,377
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +11.8%
    change since 2000 (was #20,124)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,581Maclaren1,378224,053
    #19,590Kaczynski1,377224,216

    Who is named Grisby

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

    83% of people named Grisby identified as Black (not Hispanic), 11% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.9% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 83%
    • White (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Two or more races 3.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    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 Grisby

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Grisby?
    1,377 people in the United States had the surname Grisby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 224,216 Americans. It ranked 19,590th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Grisby?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Grisby identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 11% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Grisby getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,232 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,377 in 2010, up 12%.