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The surname Holderby

A Norse place surname, carried by 610 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex H436

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Holderby is more common than 77.4% of them.

Origin

Norse origin

Habitational surname, from a variant of Holdenby, a village in West Northamptonshire.

Holderby 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 610 people named Holderby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 506,140 Americans. That is down 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 620.

#36,630
rank among US surnames
610
people in 2010
0.2
per 100,000 Americans
-1.6%
change since 2000 (was #34,554)

Who is named Holderby

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

92% of people named Holderby identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

  • White (not Hispanic) 92%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%
  • Two or more races 1.8%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Holderby

Holderby has the Soundex code H436, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H436.

Other Norse surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Holderby come from?
Habitational surname, from a variant of Holdenby, a village in West Northamptonshire.
How common is the surname Holderby?
610 people in the United States had the surname Holderby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 506,140 Americans. It ranked 36,630th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Holderby?
In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Holderby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Holderby?
Holderby is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Holderby getting more or less common?
Less common. 620 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 610 in 2010, down 1.6%.