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The ERBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,406 18230 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 274 15305 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +1132 -2925 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 25 43662 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ERBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 105 14789 0.001 11
Arkansas 92 4155 0.003 34
Wisconsin 87 12682 0.002 16
Alabama 81 6342 0.002 18
Illinois 78 20948 0.001 6
Top States for ERBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 92 4155 0.003 34
Mississippi 69 4854 0.002 24
Washington DC 13 5172 0.002 23
Alabama 81 6342 0.002 18
South Carolina 72 6732 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of ERBY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the ERBY surname.

Ethnic distribution of ERBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 952 67.71
White (Caucasian) 388 27.6
Mixed Race 38 2.7
White (Hispanic) 13 0.92
Asian/Pacific 9 0.64
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.43

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

ERBY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of ERBY in historical publications

ERBY. The same as Irby.

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 ERBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ERBY.

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 ERBY

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