The surname Overbey
A surname, carried by 2,688 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex O161
Origin
Variant of Overby.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,688 people named Overbey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 114,861 Americans. That is up 5.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,543.
#11,663
rank among US surnames
2,688
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+5.7%
change since 2000 (was #11,374)
Who is named Overbey
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
89% of people named Overbey identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 89%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Overbey has the Soundex code O161, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O161.
Questions
- Where does the surname Overbey come from?
- Variant of Overby.
- How common is the surname Overbey?
- 2,688 people in the United States had the surname Overbey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 114,861 Americans. It ranked 11,663rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Overbey?
- In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Overbey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Overbey getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,543 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,688 in 2010, up 5.7%.