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The OVERBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,354 5063 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 1,235 4564 0.002 25
Change since 1880 +5119 -499 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 4 172794 0 0
United Kingdom 3 34433 0 0
Top States for OVERBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,051 1234 0.013 131
Virginia 554 1773 0.008 78
Minnesota 356 1756 0.007 72
Texas 335 6208 0.002 16
Georgia 320 3070 0.004 39
Top States for OVERBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 166 435 0.026 258
North Carolina 1,051 1234 0.013 131
South Dakota 81 1305 0.011 107
Mississippi 256 1675 0.009 90
Virginia 554 1773 0.008 78

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

Classification and Origin of OVERBY

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the OVERBY 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 OVERBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 750 11.8
White (Hispanic) 73 1.15
Mixed Race 70 1.1
Native American/Alaskan 38 0.6
Asian/Pacific 20 0.31
White (Caucasian) 5,403 85.03

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

Meaning of OVERBY in historical publications

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

Similar names to OVERBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OVERBY.

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 OVERBY

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