Corby Family History
Corby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places in northern England. Those in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire are named with the Old Norse personal name Kori (see Cory ) + Old Norse býr ‘farm settlement’ whereas the one in Cumbria has as its first element the Old Irish personal name Corc. French: nickname from a diminutive of corb ‘crow’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022