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The GOOSBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,187 20711 0 4
United States (1880 census) 281 15007 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +906 -5704 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GOOSBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 123 16216 0.001 6
California 117 25372 0.000 3
Alabama 111 5367 0.002 25
Florida 108 20148 0.001 7
Illinois 104 16754 0.001 8
Top States for GOOSBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 111 5367 0.002 25
Oklahoma 59 8512 0.002 17
Georgia 81 9756 0.001 10
Washington DC 5 15592 0.001 9
Illinois 104 16754 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of GOOSBY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GOOSBY surname.

Ethnic distribution of GOOSBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 987 83.15
White (Caucasian) 132 11.12
Mixed Race 36 3.03
White (Hispanic) 22 1.85
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

GOOSBY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GOOSBY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GOOSBY.

Similar names to GOOSBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOOSBY.

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 GOOSBY

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