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formby Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from the place on Merseyside, so named from Old Norse forn ‘old’ (or perhaps a byname Forni with this meaning) + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of formby Families in the US in 1920
Number of formby families
 15-27
 6-14		 1-5
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