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    The surname Weatherby

    A Norse surname, carried by 2,533 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex W361

    Weatherby: #12,276 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Weatherby #12,276, 2,533 people Weatherby: #12,276 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Weatherby #12,276, 2,533 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Weatherby is more common than 92.4% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

    Variant of Wetherby.

    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 2,533 people named Weatherby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 121,889 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,493.

    #12,276
    rank among US surnames
    2,533
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.6%
    change since 2000 (was #11,568)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,269Berggren2,535121,793
    #12,274Vinyard2,534121,841
    #12,276Altizer2,533121,889
    #12,279Sparling2,532121,937
    #12,285Dolezal2,531121,986

    Who is named Weatherby

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

    82% of people named Weatherby identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 82%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Weatherby

    Weatherby has the Soundex code W361, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W361.

    Other Norse surnames

    All 126 Norse surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Weatherby come from?
    Variant of Wetherby.
    How common is the surname Weatherby?
    2,533 people in the United States had the surname Weatherby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,889 Americans. It ranked 12,276th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Weatherby?
    In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Weatherby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Weatherby getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,493 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,533 in 2010, up 1.6%.