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wilby Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the places called Wilby, in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire. The first is probably named from an Old English wilig ‘willow’ + Old English beag ‘circle’; the second has the same first element + Old Norse býr ‘farmstead’ or Old English beag, and the last is named with the Old English or Old Scandinavian personal name Villi + býr.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of wilby Families in the US in 1920
Number of wilby families
 9-16
 4-8
 1-3
 0
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