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The OSBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,509 17268 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 79 36753 0 2
Change since 1880 +1430 +19485 +N/A +4
Other Countries
Australia 1 390457 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for OSBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 210 10331 0.001 10
California 168 17679 0.000 5
Georgia 143 6249 0.002 17
Michigan 108 14503 0.001 11
Tennessee 85 7673 0.001 15
Top States for OSBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 75 4621 0.003 26
Georgia 143 6249 0.002 17
Tennessee 85 7673 0.001 15
Alabama 65 7314 0.001 15
Louisiana 65 8914 0.001 15

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

Classification and Origin of OSBY

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

Ethnic distribution of OSBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 211 13.98
White (Hispanic) 36 2.39
Mixed Race 35 2.32
Black/African American 1,214 80.45
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of OSBY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of OSBY.

Similar names to OSBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OSBY.

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 OSBY

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