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The GOLDSBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,695 15785 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 414 11194 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1281 -4591 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 6 134152 0 0
United Kingdom 127 21477 0 3
Top States for GOLDSBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 156 3937 0.004 35
California 140 19035 0.000 4
Florida 128 15269 0.001 8
Washington 124 6647 0.002 21
Ohio 95 15212 0.001 8
Top States for GOLDSBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 156 3937 0.004 35
Oregon 76 6426 0.002 22
Washington 124 6647 0.002 21
Louisiana 86 6459 0.002 19
Montana 17 9585 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of GOLDSBY

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 GOLDSBY 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 GOLDSBY 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 GOLDSBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 823 48.55
Black/African American 786 46.37
Mixed Race 48 2.83
White (Hispanic) 18 1.06
Asian/Pacific 10 0.59
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.59

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

Meaning of GOLDSBY in historical publications

GOLDSBY. GOULDSBY. A parish in Lincolnshire, sometimes corrupted to GolcebJ

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 GOLDSBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOLDSBY.

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 GOLDSBY

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