The Neighbors surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,814 people carried this name — #6,969 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 61,300 people counted. That is up 1% from 4,783 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Neighbors surname

Patronymic from Neighbor.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Neighbors» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In print

Neighbors in American newspapers,
1926.

Newspaper page from Evening Star carrying the name Neighbors
Evening Star 1926-10-01

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Neighbors in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1960s.

1,193 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Neighbors. The most, 174, date from the 1900s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in South Australia, at 1.6 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 359
Victoria 351
South Australia 230
Queensland 116
Western Australia 76
Tasmania 55
Northern Territory 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Neighbors.

Who carried it

People named Neighbors,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Cy Neighbors
    Cy Neighbors 1880–1964 · baseball player
  • Billy Neighbors
    Billy Neighbors 1940–2012 · American football player
  • Robert Neighbors 1815–1859 · politician

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 5 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Neighbors,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States266 records

266 records of the Neighbors name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 166
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 73
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 11
  • Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 5
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 4
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 3
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 3
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Theodore T. Neighbors

    Born 1914 in Arkansas. Enlisted 1942 at Salt Lake City, Utah; machine shop worker. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1986, buried at Fort Logan National Cemetery, Colorado.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record James H. Neighbors

    Born 1932; from Riverside County, California. U.S. Army, light weapons infantryman; killed in action 1951 in North Korea.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Edmund Neighbors

    Arrived at New York in 1858 aboard the Plymouth Rock from London, aged 21; baker. From England.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 266 records for Neighbors in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

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