Last Name LIBERTY

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Meaning The lead-beater. Similar to surname Goldbeater. It is probable that Liberty is a corruption, the intermediate form being Libiter.
Probably a corruption of Leadbeater. It also could be local: 'of the liberty,' from residence in some early franchised district sa called. There is a village called Liberty in county Fife. There is a mariage record though dated 1669 of John Bayley and Saray Libiter. Libiter looks like a halfay house between Leadbeater or Lidbetter, and Liberty.
Origin English, Spanish, French

Rank 8,872 (2000 US census) 13,471 (1990 US census)
Count 3,394 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 90.39%, or 3068 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 3.92%, or 133 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.62%, or 21 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 1.56%, or 53 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.74%, or 59 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.77%, or 60 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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