Roby

At the 2020 census, 9,070 Americans bore the surname Roby — 3,815th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 33,000.

By the numbers

People: 9,070
Rank: 3,815th
How common: 1 in 33,000
Per 100,000: 3.0

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 60.8%
Black, not Hispanic 29.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Roby

Martha Roby (born 1976)U.S. Representative from Alabama
Isaiah Roby (born 1998)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Roby

Also a first name

Roby has been given to 2,599 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 1964. 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.