The surname Nordby
A Norwegian surname, carried by 1,573 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex N631
Origin
Norwegian origin
Borrowed from Norwegian Nordby.
One of 31 Norwegian surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,573 people named Nordby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 196,278 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,399.
Who is named Nordby
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Nordby identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Variant spellings
Surnames that sound like Nordby
Nordby has the Soundex code N631, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N631.
Other Norwegian surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Nordby come from?
- Borrowed from Norwegian Nordby.
- How common is the surname Nordby?
- 1,573 people in the United States had the surname Nordby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 196,278 Americans. It ranked 17,798th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Nordby?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Nordby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Nordby getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,399 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,573 in 2010, up 12%.
- What are other spellings of Nordby?
- Norby.