How common is the surname Huckaby?

4,723 people in the United States had the surname Huckaby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,371 Americans. It ranked 7,091st of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Huckaby getting more or less common?

More common. 4,445 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,723 in 2010, up 6.3%.

The surname Huckaby

A place surname, carried by 4,723 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex H210

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Huckaby is more common than 95.6% of them.

Origin

A habitational surname, derived from the village of Huccaby in Devon, England.

Huckaby 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 4,723 people named Huckaby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 65,371 Americans. That is up 6.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,445.

#7,091

rank among US surnames

4,723

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+6.3%

change since 2000 (was #6,957)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,084	Botelho	4,726	65,329
#7,086	Metcalfe	4,725	65,343
#7,088	Alfano	4,724	65,357
#7,091	Dai	4,723	65,371
#7,093	Landin	4,722	65,384
#7,096	Creed	4,718	65,440
#7,098	Izzo	4,717	65,454

Who is named Huckaby

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

80% of people named Huckaby identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 80%
Black (not Hispanic) 14%
Two or more races 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Huckaba
Huckabee

Surnames that sound like Huckaby

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

Questions

How common is the surname Huckaby?: 4,723 people in the United States had the surname Huckaby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,371 Americans. It ranked 7,091st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Huckaby?: In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Huckaby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Huckaby?: Huckaby is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Huckaby getting more or less common?: More common. 4,445 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,723 in 2010, up 6.3%.
What are other spellings of Huckaby?: Huckaba and Huckabee.