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The IRBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,040 3005 0.004 41
United States (1880 census) 1,864 3171 0.004 37
Change since 1880 +9176 +166 0 +4
Other Countries
Australia 64 20948 0 4
United Kingdom 33 27227 0 1
Top States for IRBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,042 2354 0.005 50
Virginia 1,011 923 0.014 143
Mississippi 790 576 0.028 278
South Carolina 756 896 0.019 188
Alabama 715 1084 0.016 161
Top States for IRBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 790 576 0.028 278
South Carolina 756 896 0.019 188
Alabama 715 1084 0.016 161
Virginia 1,011 923 0.014 143
Arkansas 267 1377 0.010 100

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

Classification and Origin of IRBY

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 IRBY 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 IRBY 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 IRBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 166 1.5
White (Hispanic) 142 1.29
Asian/Pacific 34 0.31
Native American/Alaskan 29 0.26
White (Caucasian) 5,937 53.78
Black/African American 4,732 42.86

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

Meaning of IRBY in historical publications

IRBY.* The ancestors of Lord Boston were connected with co. Lincoln at a 3G

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 IRBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as IRBY.

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 IRBY

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