as a Last Name
- 365
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Wilby
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of the places called Wilby, in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire. The first is probably named from an Old English wilig ‘willow’ + Old English bēag ‘circle’; the second has the same first element + Old Norse býr ‘farmstead’ or Old English bēag, and the last is named with the Old English or Old Scandinavian personal name Villi + býr.
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 365
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Hampshire
- has the most people named Wilby per capita
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