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The corby Surname

corby Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of various places in northern England. Those in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire are named with the Old Norse personal name Kori (see Cory) + Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’, whereas the one in Cumbria has as its first element the Old Irish personal name Corc.
  2. French: from a diminutive of corb ‘crow’.
  3. Irish: variant of Corboy.

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Distribution of corby Families in the US in 1920
Number of corby families
 35-68
 12-34		 1-11
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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