# Yarbrough (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/yarbrough/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 24,749 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,441 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 12,475 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.9% (24,063 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname, from Yarborough and Yarburgh in Lincolnshire, from a compound of Old English eorþe (“earth”) + burh (“stronghold”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Yarbrough in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 71% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 24% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.8% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Yarbrough in the United States.

## People named Yarbrough

- William Yarbrough, American soccer player
- Cedric Yarbrough, American actor, comedian
- Jean Yarbrough, American film director (1900–1975)
- Glenn Yarbrough, American folk singer (1930–2016)
- Vincent Yarbrough, American basketball player (born 1981)
- William Bell, American soul singer and songwriter (b. 1939)

## Similar surnames

Yarborough, Yarber, Yarbro.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.