Roby
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Frequency: (2903)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English and Scottish: 1. from a pet form of Robert. 2. habitational name from Roby in Lancashire (now Merseyside), named with Old Norse rá ‘pole’, ‘boundary mark’ + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.
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Oxford Dictionary of Family Names
Dictionary of American Family Names. Copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks. All rights reserved.
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