Battersby
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Battersby’, Yorkshire (‘Bothvarr’s farmstead’)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbætɝsbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Battersby is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 388K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
- SESweden1 in 1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 388K (inferred from the name graph)
857 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
‘person from Battersby’, Yorkshire (‘Bothvarr’s farmstead’).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Battersby 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 | 857 | 1 in 388K | 857 | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 9 | 1 in 1.3M | 9 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | listed | Battersby | 7 |
857 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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Battersby is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Battersby (North Riding of Yorkshire), or Battersby Farm in Slaidburn (West Riding of Yorkshire); first attested William de Bathresby c1170–89 YCh; Roger de Batersby 1401 AssLa; John Badersby 1428; Edmund Batlersby 1501 FrY
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Yorks., so called from the gen. case of the ON personal name Bodvarr (composed of the elements bod messenger + war guard) + ON byr settlement.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, William de Bathresby c1170–89 YCh; Roger de Batersby 1401 AssLa; John Badersby 1428, Edmund Batlersby 1501 FrY. From Battersby (NRY), or Battersby Fm in Slaidburn (WRY).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Irish, An English toponymic quite numerous in Cos. Monaghan and Fermanagh since mid-seventeenth century
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Robert Battersbyb. 1924GBBritish politician (1924-2002)
- Alan Battersbyb. 1925GBBritish chemist (1925-2018)
- Roy Battersbyb. 1936GBBritish television director
- Justine Carrollb. 1950AUnot in their usual nameAustralian rower
- Bradley Battersbyb. 1953USAmerican film director
- James Battersbyb. 1958AUAustralian rower
- Eileen Battersbyb. 1958USliterary critic
- Gerard William Battersbyb. 1960USRoman Catholic bishop
- Tony Battersbyb. 1975GBFootballer (born 1975)
- Mary BattersbyIEIrish artist and naturalist
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 857 | #27,974 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 841 | #27,085 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 814 | #30,661 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #38,809 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 9 | #76,499 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #50,035 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Battersby mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Battersby’, Yorkshire (‘Bothvarr’s farmstead’). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Battersby?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbætɝsbi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Battersby have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 857 people named Battersby, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Battersby most common?
- Battersby is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 388 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Battersby?
- In the United States, the national register counted 857 people named Battersby in 2010, about 1 in 388 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/battersbyThe 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, “Battersby”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.