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The KERBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,891 7892 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 1,837 3223 0.004 37
Change since 1880 +2054 -4669 -0.003 -23
Other Countries
Australia 110 13131 0.001 7
United Kingdom 591 7876 0.001 13
Top States for KERBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 424 4961 0.002 20
California 362 7585 0.001 11
Michigan 256 4771 0.003 26
Alabama 239 2673 0.005 54
Ohio 200 6854 0.002 18
Top States for KERBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 134 2206 0.006 60
West Virginia 106 2255 0.006 59
Idaho 70 2637 0.005 54
Alabama 239 2673 0.005 54
Oklahoma 134 3439 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 KERBY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KERBY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KERBY in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KERBY by picking someone at random in Utah than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KERBY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KERBY 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 KERBY 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 KERBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 147 3.78
Mixed Race 58 1.49
White (Hispanic) 46 1.18
Native American/Alaskan 39 1
Asian/Pacific 10 0.26
White (Caucasian) 3,591 92.29

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

Meaning of KERBY in historical publications

KERBY. See Kirby.

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 KERBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KERBY.

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 KERBY

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