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The NEWBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,079 2994 0.004 41
United States (1880 census) 2,363 2566 0.005 47
Change since 1880 +8716 -428 -0.001 -6
Other Countries
Australia 618 2614 0.004 38
United Kingdom 3,966 1575 0.009 86
Top States for NEWBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 732 4204 0.002 22
Texas 729 3280 0.003 35
Virginia 654 1493 0.009 92
Tennessee 556 1601 0.010 98
Oklahoma 509 971 0.015 148
Top States for NEWBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 509 971 0.015 148
Idaho 173 1045 0.013 134
Kentucky 427 1395 0.011 106
Alaska 62 1348 0.010 99
Tennessee 556 1601 0.010 98

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

Classification and Origin of NEWBY

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 NEWBY 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 NEWBY 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 NEWBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 196 1.77
White (Hispanic) 160 1.44
Native American/Alaskan 88 0.79
Asian/Pacific 37 0.33
White (Caucasian) 8,091 73.03
Black/African American 2,507 22.63

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

Meaning of NEWBY in historical publications

NEWBY. " The new habitation." Five or six places in Yorkshire, and others in Cumberland and Westmoreland, are so called.

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 NEWBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NEWBY.

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 NEWBY

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