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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

'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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SALISBURY

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