The kirby Surname

kirby Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the numerous places in northern England called Kirby or Kirkby, from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + býr ‘settlement’.
Irish: adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Garmhaic ‘descendant of Ciarmhac’, a personal name meaning ‘dark son’. Compare Kerwick.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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kirby Family Facts

Distribution of kirby Families in the US in 1920

Number of kirby families

203-403

68-202

1-67

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 1288 - Messages: 2799

Thread	Author	Replies
Kirby, Timothy, et al	Kenneth O. Kirby	4
SMITH KERBY b. Wilkes Co., NC in 1822	Mary Carol Marino	3
KIRBY, Edith Elaine 1917-1963	t42Moore	0
KIRBY, Lois NESBITT and E D Buddy	t42Moore	0
Monroe Co. Wisconsin Kirbys	John Barklett Kirby	5
Kirby - East Kent, England	sooty28	6
kirby family in kentucky	dorothy viola kirby junior	13
Kirby's in KY	Dawn Kirby Angell	6
Catherine Lucinda Kirby	pollyolson	0
KIRBY, Evelyn T and Charlie M	t42Moore	0

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