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The NEWBURY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,989 13917 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 725 7174 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +1264 -6743 0 -7
Other Countries
Australia 278 5574 0.002 17
United Kingdom 2,425 2518 0.005 53
Top States for NEWBURY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 144 11631 0.001 7
Illinois 130 10114 0.001 10
California 128 18464 0.000 4
Wisconsin 122 6849 0.002 23
New York 101 18297 0.001 5
Top States for NEWBURY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 23 5044 0.004 36
Montana 26 5331 0.003 29
Maine 32 5184 0.003 25
New Hampshire 29 5601 0.002 23
Connecticut 78 5845 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of NEWBURY

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 NEWBURY 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 NEWBURY 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 NEWBURY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 38 1.91
White (Hispanic) 36 1.81
Black/African American 15 0.75
Asian/Pacific 10 0.5
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.3
White (Caucasian) 1,884 94.72

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

Meaning of NEWBURY in historical publications

(origin: Sax.) New-town. A place in Berkshire raised out of the ruins of an old town called Spingham.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


NEWBURY. A town in Berkshire.

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 NEWBURY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NEWBURY.

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 NEWBURY

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