Nörby
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Nörby is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse norðr (“north”) + býr (“farmstead”). The surname could also be a variant of some Scandinavian surnames, such as Nordby or Norrby.
- USUnited States1 in 145K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 28K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 31K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 261 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
2,299 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Norby in US United States, CA Canada, DK Denmark and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Old Norse norðr (“north”) + býr (“farmstead”). The surname could also be a variant of some Scandinavian surnames, such as Nordby or Norrby.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nörby counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,299 | 1 in 145K | 2.3K | Norby | 261 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Norby | 1 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Norby | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Norby | 30 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 289K | — | Norby | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 196 | 1 in 28K | 196 | Norby | 16 |
| DK Denmark | — | 107 | 1 in 55K | 107 | Norby | 47 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #909 | — | — | — | Norby | 1 |
2,299 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nörby mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse norðr (“north”) + býr (“farmstead”). The surname could also be a variant of some Scandinavian surnames, such as Nordby or Norrby. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does Nörby have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Nörby, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled norby.
- Where is Nörby most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nörby is densest in Norway — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nörby?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,299 people named Nörby in 2010, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.
- How common is Nörby compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Nörby is the 909th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%B6rbyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nörby” — the 909th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.