Salisbury
12,445 people in the United States were counted with the surname Salisbury in the 2020 census, making it the 2,814th most common in the country. That is about one person in 24,000.
By the numbers
- People
- 12,445
- Rank
- 2,814th
- How common
- 1 in 24,000
- Per 100,000
- 4.2
Where the name comes from
From Middle English Saresbury, from Old English *Searesbyriġ, Searobyriġ, Searoburh, from searu (“armor”) via folk etymology + byriġ, burh (“stronghold”), partial translation of British Latin Sorviodūnum, Sorbiodōnum, from *sorwjo-, *sorbjo- of unknown cel origin, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”) (compare Proto-Celtic *srutom (“a stream”)) + Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Salisbury described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Salisbury
- Joe Salisbury (born 1992)British tennis player
- Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761–1829)British botanist and gardener
- Edwin Salisbury (1910–1986)American rower
- Benjamin Salisbury (born 1980)American actor
- Harrison Salisbury (1908–1993)American journalist
People named Salisbury with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Salisbury
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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.