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The BIBBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,569 16761 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 412 11239 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1157 -5522 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 519 3101 0.003 32
United Kingdom 4,308 1463 0.009 94
Top States for BIBBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 172 10462 0.001 8
Florida 144 12762 0.001 9
California 123 19816 0.000 4
Alabama 105 4791 0.002 24
Massachusetts 89 9150 0.001 14
Top States for BIBBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 57 2925 0.005 54
Alabama 105 4791 0.002 24
Massachusetts 89 9150 0.001 14
Arkansas 36 7375 0.001 13
Washington 71 10444 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of BIBBY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 199 12.68
White (Hispanic) 27 1.72
Mixed Race 26 1.66
Asian/Pacific 9 0.57
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.45
White (Caucasian) 1,301 82.92

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

Meaning of BIBBY in historical publications

BIBB. BIBBEXS. BIBBY. Fancifully derived from 0. Norse b'lf, movement.

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 BIBBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BIBBY.

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 BIBBY

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