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danby Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of several places called Danby in North Yorkshire, originally named in Old Norse as Danabýr ‘settlement of the Danes’, and thus cognate with Denby.

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

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the danby family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of danby Families in the US in 1920
Number of danby families
 10-18
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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