The surname Higby
A surname, carried by 1,566 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex H210
Origin
Variant of Higbee.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,566 people named Higby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 197,156 Americans. That is up 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,460.
#17,864
rank among US surnames
1,566
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+7.3%
change since 2000 (was #17,702)
Who is named Higby
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Higby identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as two or more races and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Two or more races 2.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Higby
Higby 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 Higby come from?
- Variant of Higbee.
- How common is the surname Higby?
- 1,566 people in the United States had the surname Higby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 197,156 Americans. It ranked 17,864th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Higby?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Higby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Higby getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,460 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,566 in 2010, up 7.3%.