Newby
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Newby in northern England, meaning ‘new farmstead’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈnubi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Newby is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 29K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 467K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 566K
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
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
11,483 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
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 Newby in northern England, meaning ‘new 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)
Newby 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 | 11,483 | 1 in 29K | 11K | Newby | 19 |
| ES Spain | 38 | 1 in 1.3M | 38 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 18 | 1 in 467K | 18 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 18 | 1 in 960K | 18 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 17 | 1 in 2.3M | 11 | Newby | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 14 | 1 in 729K | 14 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 10 | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 9 | 1 in 566K | 9 | — | — |
11,483 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Newby 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 Newby, Cumbria/Westmorland/North Riding of Yorkshire/West Riding of Yorkshire, or Newby Wiske, North Riding of Yorkshire; first attested Jacobus de Newebi 1197 P (Westmorland)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, habitational name from any of the various places in northern England named with the Middle English elements newe ‘new’ -i- by ‘farm’, ‘settlement’ (of Old Norse origin).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, places in N England named with the ME elements newe New + by farm, settlement (of ON origin); cf. Newton.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A placename; any of several places:
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)
- Dangerfield Newbyb. 1825USAmerican abolitionist
- Eric Newbyb. 1919GBBritish writer (1919–2006)
- Gordon Darnell Newbyb. 1939USNewby, Gordon Darnell, 1939-
- Chas Newbyb. 1941GBBritish bassist
- Richard Newby, Baron Newbyb. 1953GBLeader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords
- Chris Newbyb. 1957GBBritish film director and screenwriter
- Maxwell Caulfieldb. 1959GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor
- Jon Newbyb. 1978GBEnglish footballer (born 1978)
- Craig Newbyb. 1979NZNew Zealand rugby union footballer and coach
- Brendan Newbyb. 1996IEIrish freestyle skier
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,148 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #2,994 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,187 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 38 | #54,423 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 38 | #53,553 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 18 | #39,486 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 18 | #51,653 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14 | #32,654 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #128,502 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #41,673 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 9 | #5,982 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Newby mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Newby in northern England, meaning ‘new farmstead’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Newby?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnubi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Newby have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Newby, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled newby.
- Where is Newby most common?
- Newby is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 29 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Newby?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,483 people named Newby in 2010, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/newbyThe 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, “Newby”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.