The rigby Surname
rigby Name Meaning and History
English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from Rigby in
Lancashire, named with Old Norse hryggr ‘ridge’ + býr
‘farm’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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