Yarbrough

English

Etymology

Habitational surname, from Yarborough and Yarburgh in Lincolnshire, from a compound of Old English eorþe (“earth”) + burh (“stronghold”).

Proper noun

Yarbrough (plural Yarbroughs)

1. A surname from Old English.
2. An unincorporated community in Quitman County, Mississippi, United States.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Yarbrough is the 1441^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 24749 individuals. Yarbrough is most common among White (70.61%) and Black/African American (23.73%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Yarbrough”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.