Explore the Family Name Christenberry

The meaning of Christenberry

English: variant of Quisenberry. Compare Chrisenberry, Christenbury, Crisenberry, and Crusenberry. History: American bearers of the surname Christenberry are all said to be descended from Thomas Questenbury (1600–72), who came to VA in 1624 from Bromley, Kent, England.

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How common is the last name Christenberry in the United States?

Based on the Decennial U.S. Census data, the popularity of the surname Christenberry has seen a slight decline between 2000 and 2010. In 2000, it ranked 29,210th in popularity, but by 2010, it had dropped to 31,068th, a decrease of 6.36%. The count of people bearing the surname also decreased from 764 in 2000 to 747 in 2010, indicating a 2.23% decline. Consequently, its proportion per 100,000 people declined by 10.71%.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#29,210	#31,068	-6.36%
Count	764	747	-2.23%
Proportion per 100k	0.28	0.25	-10.71%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Christenberry

The ethnicity associated with the surname Christenberry showed some changes between 2000 and 2010, according to the Decennial U.S. Census. In both years, the majority of individuals with this surname identified as White, increasing slightly from 95.16% in 2000 to 96.25% in 2010. Those who identified as being of two or more ethnicities increased from 1.83% to 2.01%. The data shows a new emergence of Hispanic identity within this surname group, appearing at 0.67% in 2010, while those identifying as American Indian and Alaskan Native disappeared from the statistics. There was no recorded Asian/Pacific Islander or Black ethnicity associated with this surname during these years.

	2000	2010	Change
White	95.16%	96.25%	1.15%
Two or More Races	1.83%	2.01%	9.84%
Hispanic	0%	0.67%	0%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	2.36%	0%	0%