Kerby

Kerby is the 8,135th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,894 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 76,800.

By the numbers

People: 3,894
Rank: 8,135th
How common: 1 in 76,800
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Variant of Kirby.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.0%
Black, not Hispanic 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Kerby

Jordan Kerby (born 1992)Australian cyclist

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

Surnames like Kerby

Also a first name

Kerby has been given to 1,006 American babies as a first name since 1942, peaking in 1961. 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.