The surname Norbury
An English place surname, carried by 515 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex N616
Origin
English origin
From Old English norþ (“north”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”). Doublet of Northborough.
Norbury is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 515 people named Norbury in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 599,506 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 502.
Who is named Norbury
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Norbury identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as two or more races and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Two or more races 3.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Norbury
Norbury has the Soundex code N616, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N616.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Norbury come from?
- From Old English norþ (“north”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”). Doublet of Northborough.
- How common is the surname Norbury?
- 515 people in the United States had the surname Norbury in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 599,506 Americans. It ranked 42,163rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Norbury?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Norbury identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as two or more races.
- What type of surname is Norbury?
- Norbury is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Norbury getting more or less common?
- More common. 502 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 515 in 2010, up 2.6%.