English: habitational name from any of the various places called
Willoughby, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire,
Nottinghamshire, and Warwickshire. They are named from an Old English
wilig ‘willow’ + Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’,
or perhaps in some cases from wilig + Old English
beag ‘ring’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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