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The corbett Surname

corbett Name Meaning and History

  1. English (Shropshire; of Norman origin): nickname meaning ‘little crow’, ‘raven’, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English corbet, a diminutive of corb, alluding probably to someone with dark hair or a dark complexion. The name was taken from Shropshire to Scotland in the 12th century and to northern Ireland in the 17th century, and thence to North America by one group of bearers of the name.
  2. Irish: see Corban.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The corbett name in History

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Distribution of corbett Families in the US in 1920
Number of corbett families
 254-506
 85-253		 1-84
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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