Harby
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Harby is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Harby (Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire), or Hareby (Lincolnshire); first attested Coleman de Harebi 1170 P (L).
- EGEgypt≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 227K
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Harby (Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire), or Hareby (Lincolnshire); first attested Coleman de Harebi 1170 P (L)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Harby 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #929 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Harby | 65 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Harby | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 227K | — | Harby | 91 |
| US United States | — | 191 | 1 in 1.7M | 231 | Harby | 130 |
| NO Norway | — | 180 | 1 in 30K | 180 | Harby | 14 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Harby | 22 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Harby | 10 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Harby is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A placename:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkmen, military, martial
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Isaac Harbyb. 1788USAmerican writer, journalist, and advocate of reforms in Judaism (1788-1828)
- George Washington Harbyb. 1797educator and playwright
- Lee C. Hardyb. 1849USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer (1849-1918)
- Berit Harbyb. 1944NONorwegian athletics competitor (1944-2012)
- Anne Gro Harbyb. 1955NONorwegian athletics competitor
- K. HarbyEGEgyptian energy engineer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 231 | #86,747 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 205 | #84,968 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 191 | #95,545 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 180 | #8,741 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Harby mean, and where does it come from?
- from Harby (Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire), or Hareby (Lincolnshire); first attested Coleman de Harebi 1170 P (L) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Harby have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Harby in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled harby.
- How common is the name Harby?
- In the United States, the national register counted 191 people named Harby in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Harby compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Harby is the 929th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Harby?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/harbyThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Harby” — the 929th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.