Moby Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 2
Middlesex 1
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Moby Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Moby family

Profession Census Frequency
Independent 1
Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Moby

Name Census Frequency
John Moby 12
William Moby 11
Ann Moby 7
Richard Moby 7
Elizabeth Moby 6
Mary Moby 6
Thomas Moby 5
Alfred Moby 4
Charles Moby 4
Edith Moby 4
Emily Moby 4
Henry Moby 4
Hannah Moby 3
Sarah Moby 3
Arthur Moby 2
Eva Moby 2
Florence Moby 2
George Moby 2
Herman Moby 2
James Moby 2
Joseph Moby 2
Lizzie Moby 2
Ada Moby 1
Adile Moby 1
Alriatt Moby 1

Moby Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Mabey 60% 3,232
2 Maby 75% 1,953
3 Meaby 60% 851
4 Mobey 80% 795
5 Mooby 80% 388
6 Emby 50% 181
7 Moby 100% 124
8 Mobby 80% 104

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The surname Moby is the 7th most popular variant of Mabey.

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