# Newbury (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/newbury/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,997 |
| US rank (2010) | 14,838 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 154,605 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.4% (1,989 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /njubəɹi/, 3 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Old English niwe (“new”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”). Doublet of Newburgh.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Newbury in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Newbury in the United States.

## People named Newbury

- Mickey Newbury, American singer-songwriter (1940–2002)

## Similar surnames

Newberry, Niebuhr, Navarro, Napier, Neubauer, Nipper, Navarre, Napper, Naber, Navarra, Navar, Nabor.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.