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godby Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name for someone from either of two places in Leicestershire, Goadby or Goadby Marwood, named from the Old Norse personal name Gauti + býr ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.

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Distribution of godby Families in the US in 1840
Number of godby families
 7-11
 3-6
 1-2
 0
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