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The DIGBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,411 18188 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 259 15958 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +1152 -2230 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 399 3970 0.002 24
United Kingdom 1,694 3393 0.004 37
Top States for DIGBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 162 4853 0.002 20
Texas 143 11680 0.001 7
Ohio 130 10061 0.001 11
Illinois 108 12178 0.001 9
Oklahoma 75 5576 0.002 22
Top States for DIGBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 75 5576 0.002 22
Arkansas 57 5026 0.002 21
Georgia 162 4853 0.002 20
Vermont 7 11034 0.001 11
South Carolina 46 7854 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of DIGBY

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 DIGBY 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 DIGBY 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 DIGBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 186 13.18
Mixed Race 23 1.63
White (Hispanic) 17 1.2
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.99
Asian/Pacific 7 0.5
White (Caucasian) 1,164 82.49

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

Meaning of DIGBY in historical publications

(origin: Local) From Digby, a town in the county of Lincoln, England, so named from the Danish Dige, a dike, ditch, or trench, and by, a town--the town by the dike.

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


DIGBY. A parish in Lincolnshire. The noble family are of great antiquity in co. Warwick.

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 DIGBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DIGBY.

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 DIGBY

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