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The BIBB surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,863 7946 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 2,073 2885 0.004 41
Change since 1880 +1790 -5061 -0.003 -27
Other Countries
Australia 43 28543 0 3
United Kingdom 503 8823 0.001 11
Top States for BIBB by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 445 1652 0.010 100
Texas 350 5910 0.002 17
Virginia 300 3030 0.004 42
California 262 10304 0.001 8
Ohio 254 5684 0.002 22
Top States for BIBB by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 445 1652 0.010 100
Kentucky 251 2273 0.006 62
Virginia 300 3030 0.004 42
West Virginia 74 2985 0.004 41
Arkansas 105 3305 0.004 39

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BIBB live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BIBB represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BIBB in Alabama than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BIBB by picking someone at random in Alabama than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BIBB

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BIBB surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BIBB surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BIBB in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 922 23.87
Mixed Race 73 1.89
White (Hispanic) 62 1.6
Native American/Alaskan 38 0.98
Asian/Pacific 32 0.83
White (Caucasian) 2,736 70.83

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BIBB surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BIBB in historical publications

BIBB. BIBBEXS. BIBBY. Fancifully derived from 0. Norse b'lf, movement.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BIBB

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BIBB.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BIBB

The following words are slight variants of BIBB that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.