Släkthistoria för Earby
Earby Vad efternamn betyder
probably from Earby in Thornton in Craven (WR Yorks) which is recorded as Everby in 1260 but perhaps from Ewerby (Lincs) or Yearby in Kirkleatham (NR Yorks); see Yerby. The WR Yorks place-name derives from the Old Scandinavian personal name Iǫfurr or Old Scandinavian efri ‘upper higher’ + bȳ ‘farmstead village’. The NR Yorks place-name derives from Old English uferra ‘upper higher’ + Old Scandinavian bȳ. The Lincs place-name derives from the Old Scandinavian personal name Ivar + Old Scandinavian bȳ.
Källa: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021
