Colby Family History
Colby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places in Norfolk and Cumbria
named Colby, from the Old Norse personal name Koli (a byname
for a swarthy person, from kol ‘(char)coal’) + Old Norse
býr ‘settlement’.Variant spelling of Norwegian
Kolby, a habitational name in Akershus, with the same etymology
as 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Colby
Name Distribution of Colby Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Colby families
 164 - 326  55 - 163 |
 1 - 54  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Colby families
|
62 - 122 21 - 61 |
1 - 20 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Colby families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Colby census records
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Colby Family Origin
Colby Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Colby
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Colby Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Colby census records
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