The SALISBURY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,581	2640	0.005	47
United States (1880 census)	2,569	2369	0.005	51
Change since 1880	+10012	-271	0	-4
Other Countries
Australia	776	2088	0.005	47
United Kingdom	4,520	1388	0.01	98

Top States for SALISBURY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,314	1374	0.007	69
Michigan	998	1059	0.010	100
California	982	3144	0.003	29
Ohio	644	2136	0.006	57
Florida	587	3467	0.004	37
Top States for SALISBURY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	353	311	0.034	337
Maine	215	1161	0.017	169
Utah	333	897	0.015	149
Idaho	164	1046	0.013	127
New Hampshire	148	1326	0.012	120

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

Classification and Origin of SALISBURY

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 SALISBURY 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 SALISBURY 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 SALISBURY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	366	2.91
White (Hispanic)	220	1.75
Mixed Race	166	1.32
Asian/Pacific	89	0.71
Native American/Alaskan	58	0.46
White (Caucasian)	11,681	92.85

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

Meaning of SALISBURY in historical publications

SALISBURY. SALUSBURY. Edward de Sarisberie, sometimes called Edward Yicecomes, was a great tenant in chief in "Wiltshire and other counties, at the making of Domesday. He was a younger sou of Walter de Evreux (Devereux)— one of the few instances, in those early times, of a Norman family Avith a Saxon name. See Hutchins' Dorset. Ellis's Introd. Domesd. The baronet's family are descended from Adam de Salusbury, who is said to have been captain of the castle of Denbigh, at a period little subsequent to the Noi-man Conquest, inasmuch as his great-grandson, .John Salusbury of Llewenny, co. Denbigh, died 18. Edward I. Courthope's Debrett.

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 SALISBURY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SALISBURY.

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.