Norby
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from a farmstead named with norr ‘north’ -iby ‘farm’, or an ornamental name formed with the same elements
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈnɔɹbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Norby is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- 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)
- Sources
- 261 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
2,299 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from a farmstead named with norr ‘north’ -iby ‘farm’, or an ornamental name formed with the same elements.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Norby 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Norby 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, habitational name from Norby in Thirsk, North Yorkshire.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A hamlet in Thirsk parish, Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4282).
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)
- Søren Norbyb. 1470FRDanish admiral (1470-1530)
- Christine Norbyb. 1848NONorwegian author (1848-1932)
- Henrik Norbyb. 1889NOmodern pentathlete (1889-1964)
- John Norbyb. 1910USAmerican football player (1910-1998)
- Erik Norbyb. 1936DKDanish composer
- Chris Norbyb. 1949USCalifornia politician and teacher
- Truls Norbyb. 1955NONorwegian chemist and professor at University of Oslo
- Cæcilie Norbyb. 1964DKDanish jazz and rockpop singer
- Kate Norbyb. 1976USAmerican actress
- Connor Norbyb. 2000USAmerican baseball player
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 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,267 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,826 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 196 | #8,113 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 107 | #5,105 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Norby mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a farmstead named with norr ‘north’ -iby ‘farm’, or an ornamental name formed with the same elements. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Norby?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnɔɹbi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Norby have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Norby, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled norby.
- Where is Norby most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Norby 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 Norby?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,299 people named Norby in 2010, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.
- How common is Norby compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Norby is the 909th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/norbyThe 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, “Norby” — the 909th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.