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The OVERBEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,543 11374 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 362 12407 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +2181 +1033 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for OVERBEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 266 3064 0.005 47
Virginia 197 4339 0.003 28
Ohio 196 7245 0.002 17
Missouri 174 4399 0.003 31
Illinois 173 7952 0.001 14
Top States for OVERBEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 266 3064 0.005 47
Kentucky 165 3168 0.004 41
Missouri 174 4399 0.003 31
Arkansas 81 4040 0.003 30
Virginia 197 4339 0.003 28

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

Classification and Origin of OVERBEY

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

Ethnic distribution of OVERBEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 190 7.47
Mixed Race 43 1.69
Native American/Alaskan 21 0.83
White (Hispanic) 18 0.71
Asian/Pacific 7 0.28
White (Caucasian) 2,264 89.03

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

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

Meaning of OVERBEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to OVERBEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OVERBEY.

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 OVERBEY

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