The OVERBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,354	5063	0.002	24
United States (1880 census)	1,235	4564	0.002	25
Change since 1880	+5119	-499	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	4	172794	0	0
United Kingdom	3	34433	0	0

Top States for OVERBY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	1,051	1234	0.013	131
Virginia	554	1773	0.008	78
Minnesota	356	1756	0.007	72
Texas	335	6208	0.002	16
Georgia	320	3070	0.004	39
Top States for OVERBY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	166	435	0.026	258
North Carolina	1,051	1234	0.013	131
South Dakota	81	1305	0.011	107
Mississippi	256	1675	0.009	90
Virginia	554	1773	0.008	78

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of OVERBY

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the OVERBY 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 OVERBY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	750	11.8
White (Hispanic)	73	1.15
Mixed Race	70	1.1
Native American/Alaskan	38	0.6
Asian/Pacific	20	0.31
White (Caucasian)	5,403	85.03

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

Similar names to OVERBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OVERBY.

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.