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The worby Surname

worby Name Meaning and History

  1. occupational nickname for a forester, literally ‘guard wood’, from Old French garder, warder ‘to guard’ + bois ‘wood’.
  2. habitational name from Warboys in Cambridgeshire, possibly from an unattested Old English Wearda or alternatively Old English weard ‘watch’, ‘protection’ + busc ‘bush’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of worby Families in the US in 1920
Number of worby families
 5-8
 2-4		 1
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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