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    The surname Westbury

    An English place surname, carried by 916 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex W231

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Westbury is more common than 83.6% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English west (“west”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”), alternatively west + -bury.

    Westbury is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 916 people named Westbury in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 337,058 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 818.

    #26,598
    rank among US surnames
    916
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +12%
    change since 2000 (was #27,694)

    Who is named Westbury

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

    89% of people named Westbury identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 8.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    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 Westbury

    Westbury has the Soundex code W231, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W231.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Westbury come from?
    From Old English west (“west”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”), alternatively west + -bury.
    How common is the surname Westbury?
    916 people in the United States had the surname Westbury in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 337,058 Americans. It ranked 26,598th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Westbury?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Westbury identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Westbury?
    Westbury is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Westbury getting more or less common?
    More common. 818 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 916 in 2010, up 12%.