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    The surname Higbee

    A place surname, carried by 3,355 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H210

    Higbee: #9,672 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Higbee #9,672, 3,355 people Higbee: #9,672 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Higbee #9,672, 3,355 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Higbee is more common than 94% of them.

    Origin

    Unknown; even though it looks like a habitational surname, no place with this name is known in England.

    Higbee is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,355 people named Higbee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 92,025 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,290.

    #9,672
    rank among US surnames
    3,355
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2%
    change since 2000 (was #9,123)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,666Kennelly3,35891,943
    #9,667Oliveri3,35791,971
    #9,669Shear3,35691,998
    #9,672Vanlandingham3,35592,025
    #9,679Kummer3,35492,053

    Who is named Higbee

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

    92% of people named Higbee identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as two or more races and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Higbee

    Higbee has the Soundex code H210, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H210.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Higbee come from?
    Unknown; even though it looks like a habitational surname, no place with this name is known in England.
    How common is the surname Higbee?
    3,355 people in the United States had the surname Higbee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 92,025 Americans. It ranked 9,672nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Higbee?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Higbee identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Higbee?
    Higbee is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Higbee getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,290 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,355 in 2010, up 2.0%.
    What are other spellings of Higbee?
    Higbie and Higby.