Last name: KILBY
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KILBY : This last name is indexed 25,562 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
KILBY : English: habitational name from Kilby in Leicestershire. The placename derives from Old English cild ‘child’ (genitive plural cilda) + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead village’ with change of initial Ch- to K- due to Scandinavian influence. There may have been some confusion with Kelby.
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