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    The surname Lisby

    A Danish place surname, carried by 591 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L210

    Lisby: #37,646 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Lisby #37,646, 591 people Lisby: #37,646 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Lisby #37,646, 591 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lisby is more common than 76.8% of them.

    Origin

    Danish origin

    Two main origins: * Borrowed from Danish Lisby, a habitational surname. * An English habitational surname, perhaps a variant of Lusby or from a lost place in England.

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

    One of 50 Danish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 591 people named Lisby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 522,412 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 537.

    #37,646
    rank among US surnames
    591
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.1%
    change since 2000 (was #38,706)

    Who is named Lisby

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

    69% of people named Lisby identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 24%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Lisby

    Lisby has the Soundex code L210, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L210.

    Other Danish surnames

    All 50 Danish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Lisby come from?
    Two main origins: * Borrowed from Danish Lisby, a habitational surname. * An English habitational surname, perhaps a variant of Lusby or from a lost place in England.
    How common is the surname Lisby?
    591 people in the United States had the surname Lisby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 522,412 Americans. It ranked 37,646th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lisby?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Lisby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Lisby?
    Lisby is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Lisby getting more or less common?
    More common. 537 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 591 in 2010, up 10%.