Irby 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 4
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 2
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 1
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 1
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 1
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

Irby Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Irby family

Profession Census Frequency
Independent 4
Pupil 2
Student 1
Female Servant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Irby

Name Census Frequency
Henrietta Irby 9
Emma Irby 7
Augustus Irby 5
Charles Irby 5
Frances Irby 5
George Irby 5
John Irby 5
Margaret Irby 5
Thomas Irby 5
Florence Irby 4
Augusta Irby 3
Charlotte Irby 3
Evelyn Irby 3
Henry Irby 3
Mary Irby 3
Ralph Irby 3
Alice Irby 2
Ernest Irby 2
Helen Irby 2
Hon Irby 2
Isabella Irby 2
Jessie Irby 2
William Irby 2
Cecilia Irby 1
Christane Irby 1

Irby Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Raby 50% 8,908
2 Roby 50% 5,920
3 Robey 40% 4,053
4 Ruby 50% 3,879
5 Rabey 40% 1,579
6 Riby 50% 1,193
7 Earby 60% 382
8 Reeby 40% 380
9 Erby 75% 198
10 Ribey 40% 165
11 Rubey 40% 137
12 Irby 100% 126

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The surname Irby is the 12th most popular variant of Raby.

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