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Willoughby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the various places called
Willoughby, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire,
Nottinghamshire, and Warwickshire. They are named from an Old English
wilig ‘willow’ + Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’,
or perhaps in some cases from wilig + Old English
beag ‘ring’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Willoughby Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Willoughby families
 91 - 179  31 - 90 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Willoughby families
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274 - 545 92 - 273 |
1 - 91 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Willoughby families
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13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Willoughby Family Origin
Willoughby Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Willoughby
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Willoughby Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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