How common is the surname Salsbury?

2,202 people in the United States had the surname Salsbury in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 140,211 Americans. It ranked 13,741st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Salsbury?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Salsbury identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Salsbury getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,266 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,202 in 2010, down 2.8%.

The surname Salsbury

A surname, carried by 2,202 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S421

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Salsbury is more common than 91.5% of them.

Origin

Variant of Salisbury.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,202 people named Salsbury in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 140,211 Americans. That is down 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,266.

#13,741

rank among US surnames

2,202

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

-2.8%

change since 2000 (was #12,542)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,736	Wasilewski	2,204	140,084
#13,737	Brunetti	2,203	140,148
#13,741	Willits	2,202	140,211
#13,746	Beaird	2,201	140,275

Who is named Salsbury

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

92% of people named Salsbury identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
Two or more races 2.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Salsbury

Salsbury has the Soundex code S421, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S421.

Questions

Where does the surname Salsbury come from?: Variant of Salisbury.
How common is the surname Salsbury?: 2,202 people in the United States had the surname Salsbury in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 140,211 Americans. It ranked 13,741st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Salsbury?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Salsbury identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Salsbury getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,266 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,202 in 2010, down 2.8%.