Abney

At the 2020 census, 9,406 Americans bore the surname Abney — 3,677th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 31,800.

By the numbers

People: 9,406
Rank: 3,677th
How common: 1 in 31,800
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the genitive form of the Old English personal name Abba + īeġ (“island”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Abney described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 65.3%
Black, not Hispanic 26.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Abney

William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843–1920)British astronomer, chemist and photographer

People named Abney with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Abney

Abner

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.