The surname Norby
A Norse place surname, carried by 2,299 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex N610
Origin
Norse origin
From Old Norse norðr (“north”) + býr (“farmstead”). The surname could also be a variant of some Scandinavian surnames, such as Nordby or Norrby.
Norby 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 2,299 people named Norby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 134,296 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,271.
Who is named Norby
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Norby identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6%
Other Norse surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Norby come from?
- From Old Norse norðr (“north”) + býr (“farmstead”). The surname could also be a variant of some Scandinavian surnames, such as Nordby or Norrby.
- How common is the surname Norby?
- 2,299 people in the United States had the surname Norby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 134,296 Americans. It ranked 13,267th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Norby?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Norby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Norby?
- Norby is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Norby getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,271 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,299 in 2010, up 1.2%.