English: habitational name from any of the places called Wilby, in
Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire. The first is probably named
from an Old English wilig ‘willow’ + Old English beag
‘circle’; the second has the same first element + Old Norse
býr ‘farmstead’ or Old English beag, and the last
is named with the Old English or Old Scandinavian personal name
Villi + býr.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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