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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name for someone from a place in East Yorkshire called Wauldby (recorded in Domesday Book as Walbi ‘(village) on the wold’) or from Walby in Cumbria (‘(village) by the (Roman) wall’).

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