Soulby Family History
Soulby Name Meaning
from Soulby (Westm) which is recorded as Suleby and Sulebi from the 12th to 14th centuries or Soulby in Dacre (Cumb) which is recorded as Soulby in 132 The place-names probably derive from the Old Scandinavian personal name Súla or Old Scandinavian súla ‘post pillar’ + bȳ ‘farmstead village’. For the intrusive -s- in Soulsby compare Sowerby and its variants.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016