Släkthistoria för Tilby
Tilby Vad efternamn betyder
possibly a variant of Tailby which derives from Tealby (Lincs) but this place-name usually appears in forms like Tevelby and Teleby in the medieval period and seems unlikely to have given rise to the early Tilby spellings cited below. A reference to Michael Johnson of London sawyer born at Tylby in the parts of Brabant 1436 in Patent Rolls suggests that the name may be an English rendering of Tilburg.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
