Ashby

At the 2020 census, 17,084 Americans bore the surname Ashby — 2,063rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,500.

By the numbers

People: 17,084
Rank: 2,063rd
How common: 1 in 17,500
Per 100,000: 5.7

Where the name comes from

From Old English æsċ (“ashtree”) + Old Norse býr (“farm, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.8%
Black, not Hispanic 12.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Ashby

Hal Ashby (1929–1988)American film director and film editor
Linden Ashby (born 1960)American actor
W. Ross Ashby (1903–1972)British psychiatrist
Jeffrey Ashby (born 1954)American astronaut
Dorothy Ashby (1932–1986)American jazz harpist
Margery Corbett Ashby (1882–1981)British activist
Glenn Ashby (born 1977)Australian sailor
Harrison Ashby (born 2001)Scottish association football player

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

Surnames like Ashby

Also a first name

Ashby has been given to 2,398 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2017. See it as a given name.

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.