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The kirby Surname

kirby Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of the numerous places in northern England called Kirby or Kirkby, from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + býr ‘settlement’.
  2. Irish: adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Garmhaic ‘descendant of Ciarmhac’, a personal name meaning ‘dark son’. Compare Kerwick.

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

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

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Distribution of kirby Families in the US in 1920
Number of kirby families
 203-403
 68-202		 1-67
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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