Busby

Busby is the 2,356th most common surname in the United States, shared by 15,083 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 19,800.

By the numbers

People: 15,083
Rank: 2,356th
How common: 1 in 19,800
Per 100,000: 5.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old Norse

From Old Norse buskr (“bush”) + býr (“homestead, village”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.2%
Black, not Hispanic 16.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Busby

Matt Busby (1909–1994)Scottish football player and manager
Cindy Busby (born 1983)Canadian actress
James Busby (1802–1871)Scottish/Australian/New Zealand viticulturalist, farmer and politician
Margaret Busby (born 1944)publisher, writer and author

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

Surnames like Busby

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.