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    The surname Owenby

    A Norse place surname, carried by 2,241 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex O510

    Owenby: #13,536 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Owenby #13,536, 2,241 people Owenby: #13,536 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Owenby #13,536, 2,241 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Owenby is more common than 91.7% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

    Habitational surname from various places in Lincolnshire named with the Old Norse personal name Auðun + býr (“settlement”).

    Owenby 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 2,241 people named Owenby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 137,771 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,242.

    #13,536
    rank among US surnames
    2,241
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #12,654)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,531Stringham2,242137,710
    #13,536Seiber2,241137,771
    #13,541Cousineau2,240137,833
    #13,544Pero2,239137,894
    #13,545Eugenio2,238137,956

    Who is named Owenby

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    97% of people named Owenby identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as two or more races and 1.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Owenby

    Owenby has the Soundex code O510, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O510.

    Other Norse surnames

    All 126 Norse surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Owenby come from?
    Habitational surname from various places in Lincolnshire named with the Old Norse personal name Auðun + býr (“settlement”).
    How common is the surname Owenby?
    2,241 people in the United States had the surname Owenby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 137,771 Americans. It ranked 13,536th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Owenby?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Owenby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Owenby?
    Owenby is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Owenby getting more or less common?
    About as common. 2,242 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,241 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.
    What are other spellings of Owenby?
    Owensby.