Whilby 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 3
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 2
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 3
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 0
Leicestershire 5
Lincolnshire 0
London 10
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 1
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

Whilby Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Whilby family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 5
Agricultural Labourer 2
Railway Inspector 1
Railway Porter 1
Retired Farmers Wife 1
Servant 1
Governess School 1
Carpenter 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Whilby

Name Census Frequency
William Whilby 34
John Whilby 30
Mary Whilby 20
Thomas Whilby 19
Sarah Whilby 16
Joseph Whilby 14
James Whilby 13
Elizabeth Whilby 12
Charles Whilby 11
George Whilby 10
Annie Whilby 9
Jane Whilby 9
Hannah Whilby 8
Ann Whilby 7
Eliza Whilby 7
Emma Whilby 6
Florence Whilby 6
Louisa Whilby 6
Robert Whilby 6
Ellen Whilby 5
Henry Whilby 5
Edith Whilby 4
Edward Whilby 4
Emily Whilby 4
Walter Whilby 4

Whilby Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Wilby 83% 12,732
2 Willby 67% 1,114
3 Whilby 100% 406
4 Wilbey 67% 224

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The surname Whilby is the 3rd most popular variant of Wilby.

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