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The surname Yearby

A surname, carried by 1,087 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex Y610

Yearby: #23,397 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Yearby #23,397, 1,087 people Yearby: #23,397 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Yearby #23,397, 1,087 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yearby is more common than 85.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,087 people named Yearby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 284,035 Americans. That is up 7.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,009.

#23,397
rank among US surnames
1,087
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+7.7%
change since 2000 (was #23,480)

Who is named Yearby

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

76% of people named Yearby identified as Black (not Hispanic), 18% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as two or more races.

  • Black (not Hispanic) 76%
  • White (not Hispanic) 18%
  • Two or more races 2.7%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Yearby

Yearby has the Soundex code Y610, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y610.

Questions

How common is the surname Yearby?
1,087 people in the United States had the surname Yearby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 284,035 Americans. It ranked 23,397th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Yearby?
In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Yearby identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 18% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Yearby getting more or less common?
More common. 1,009 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,087 in 2010, up 7.7%.