Overby

5,931 people in the United States were counted with the surname Overby in the 2020 census, making it the 5,640th most common in the country. That is about one person in 50,400.

By the numbers

People: 5,931
Rank: 5,640th
How common: 1 in 50,400
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Danish Overby or Norwegian Øverby.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.9%
Black, not Hispanic 11.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Overby

Dagmar Overby (1887–1929)Danish serial child killer
Petter Øverby (born 1992)Norwegian handball player

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

Surnames like Overby

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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.