The OSTBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	954	24560	0	4
United States (1880 census)	60	44488	0	1
Change since 1880	+894	+19928	+N/A	+3
Other Countries
Australia	5	153549	0	0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for OSTBY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	208	3273	0.004	42
Washington	86	8577	0.001	15
Wisconsin	74	12142	0.001	14
California	69	32733	0.000	2
Oregon	60	7320	0.002	18
Top States for OSTBY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	46	2328	0.007	72
Minnesota	208	3273	0.004	42
Montana	31	4653	0.003	34
South Dakota	24	5902	0.003	32
Oregon	60	7320	0.002	18

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of OSTBY

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

Ethnic distribution of OSTBY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	918	96.23
Mixed Race	15	1.57
Asian/Pacific	8	0.84
White (Hispanic)	8	0.84
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.52
Black/African American	Less than 100	0

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

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

Similar names to OSTBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OSTBY.

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.