How common is the surname Yarbrough?

24,749 people in the United States had the surname Yarbrough in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 12,475 Americans. It ranked 1,441st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Yarbrough?

William Yarbrough, American soccer player, followed by Cedric Yarbrough.

Where is the surname Yarbrough most common?

Wikidata records people named Yarbrough in the United States.

Is the surname Yarbrough getting more or less common?

More common. 24,063 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 24,749 in 2010, up 2.9%.

The surname Yarbrough

A place surname, carried by 24,749 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex Y616

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yarbrough is more common than 99.1% of them.

Origin

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

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

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 24,749 people named Yarbrough in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 12,475 Americans. That is up 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 24,063.

#1,441

rank among US surnames

24,749

people in 2010

8.4

per 100,000 Americans

+2.9%

change since 2000 (was #1,350)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,432	Edmonds	24,857	12,421
#1,433	Gomes	24,827	12,436
#1,434	Buckner	24,822	12,438
#1,435	Walden	24,821	12,439
#1,436	Hutchison	24,820	12,439
#1,437	Griggs	24,819	12,440
#1,438	Nix	24,786	12,456

Who is named Yarbrough

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

71% of people named Yarbrough identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Yarbroughs

6 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

William Yarbrough
American soccer player, born 1989
Cedric Yarbrough
American actor, comedian, born 1973
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)

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Yarbrough

Yarbrough has the Soundex code Y616, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y616.

Questions

Where does the surname Yarbrough come from?: Habitational surname, from Yarborough and Yarburgh in Lincolnshire, from a compound of Old English eorþe (“earth”) + burh (“stronghold”).
How common is the surname Yarbrough?: 24,749 people in the United States had the surname Yarbrough in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 12,475 Americans. It ranked 1,441st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Yarbrough?: In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Yarbrough identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Yarbrough?: William Yarbrough, American soccer player, followed by Cedric Yarbrough.
Where is the surname Yarbrough most common?: Wikidata records people named Yarbrough in the United States.
What type of surname is Yarbrough?: Yarbrough is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Yarbrough getting more or less common?: More common. 24,063 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 24,749 in 2010, up 2.9%.