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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Roby

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Scottish : from a pet form of Robert.
  • English and Scottish : habitational name from Roby in Lancashire (now Merseyside), named with Old Norse ‘pole’, ‘boundary mark’ + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.

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