Appleby

At the 2020 census, 5,255 Americans bore the surname Appleby — 6,242nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 56,900.

By the numbers

People: 5,255
Rank: 6,242nd
How common: 1 in 56,900
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

From Old English æppel (“apple”) and Old Norse býr (“farm, town”), from the root of the verb Old Norse búa.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.5%
Black, not Hispanic 6.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Appleby

Shiri Appleby (born 1978)American actress and director
Dorothy Appleby (1906–1990)American actress
Kim Appleby (born 1961)British singer
Melanie Appleby (1966–1990)British singer

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

Surnames like Appleby

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.