The surname Ormsby
A Norse place surname, carried by 3,643 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex O652
Origin
Norse origin
Habitational surname from the village of South Ormsby in Lincolnshire, from the Old Norse personal name Ormr + býr (“village”). Compare Ormesby.
Ormsby 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 3,643 people named Ormsby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 84,750 Americans. That is up 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,492.
Who is named Ormsby
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
84% of people named Ormsby identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 84%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 6.2%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Other Norse surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Ormsby come from?
- Habitational surname from the village of South Ormsby in Lincolnshire, from the Old Norse personal name Ormr + býr (“village”). Compare Ormesby.
- How common is the surname Ormsby?
- 3,643 people in the United States had the surname Ormsby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 84,750 Americans. It ranked 8,981st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Ormsby?
- In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Ormsby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Ormsby?
- Ormsby is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Ormsby getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,492 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,643 in 2010, up 4.3%.