Allenby
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person from Allonby’, Cumbria; ‘Alein’s farmstead’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈæɫənbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Allenby is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Person from Allonby’, Cumbria; ‘Alein’s farmstead’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Catherine Anne Caneb. 1831not in their usual name(1831-1922)
- Hynman Allenbyb. 1832(1832-1878)
- Lady Sophia Montgomerieb. 1863GBnot in their usual name(1863-1942); eldest daughter of Archibald Montgomerie, 14th Earl of Eglinton, and Lady Sophia Anderson-Pelham
- Peggy Allenbyb. 1901USactress (1901–1966)
- Dudley Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenbyb. 1903GB2nd Viscount Allenby (1903-1984)
- Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenbyb. 1931GBBritish politician and hereditary peer (1931-2014)
- Braden Allenbyb. 1950USAmerican environmental scientist, environmental attorney, and former AT&T executive
- Robert Allenbyb. 1971AUAustralian professional golfer
- Kate Allenbyb. 1974GBPentathlete and teacher
- Jim Allenbyb. 1982AUcricketer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 231 | #81,772 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 219 | #90,519 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 219 | #80,502 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #303,316 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 2 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2022 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1983 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Allenby mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person from Allonby’, Cumbria; ‘Alein’s farmstead’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Allenby?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈæɫənbi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Allenby have the most bearers?
- Allenby is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Allenby?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/allenbyThe 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, “Allenby”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.