English: habitational name from any of the numerous places in
northern England called Kirby or Kirkby, from Old Norse kirkja
‘church’ + býr ‘settlement’.Irish: adopted as an
English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Garmhaic ‘descendant of
Ciarmhac’, a personal name meaning ‘dark son’. Compare
Kerwick.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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