The surname Lusby
A Norse place surname, carried by 2,096 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L210
Origin
Norse origin
From the Old Norse personal name Lutr + -s- + býr (“farmstead”).
Lusby 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 2,096 people named Lusby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 147,302 Americans. That is down 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,144.
Who is named Lusby
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
89% of people named Lusby identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 89%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- Two or more races 1.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Variant spellings
Surnames that sound like Lusby
Lusby has the Soundex code L210, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L210.
Other Norse surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Lusby come from?
- From the Old Norse personal name Lutr + -s- + býr (“farmstead”).
- How common is the surname Lusby?
- 2,096 people in the United States had the surname Lusby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 147,302 Americans. It ranked 14,286th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lusby?
- In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Lusby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Lusby?
- Lusby is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Lusby getting more or less common?
- Less common. 2,144 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,096 in 2010, down 2.2%.
- What are other spellings of Lusby?
- Lisby.