Bagby
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Frequency: (2073)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English: habitational name from Bagby in North Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Baghebi, from the Old Norse personal name Baggi + Old Norse býr ‘farmstead’, ‘village’.
2. Scottish: possibly from Begbie in East Lothian.
FOREBEARS: James Bagby, a Scot, arrived in Jamestown, VA, in about 1628. One of his descendants, Arthur Pendleton Bagby (1794-1858), was governor of Alabama (1837-1841) and a U.S. senator (1841-48).
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