The surname Yerby
A surname, carried by 1,001 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex Y610
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,001 people named Yerby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 308,437 Americans. That is down 3.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,042.
#24,855
rank among US surnames
1,001
people in 2010
0.3
per 100,000 Americans
-3.9%
change since 2000 (was #22,934)
Who is named Yerby
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
73% of people named Yerby identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 73%
- Black (not Hispanic) 20%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Yerby
Yerby 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 Yerby?
- 1,001 people in the United States had the surname Yerby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 308,437 Americans. It ranked 24,855th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Yerby?
- In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Yerby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Yerby getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,042 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,001 in 2010, down 3.9%.