Filby
surname · Latin script
Meaning: called from the ON personal name Fill (of uncertain ori¬ gin) + ON byr farm, settlement
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈfɪɫbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Filby is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- IEIreland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
called from the ON personal name Fill (of uncertain ori¬ gin) + ON byr farm, settlement. Vars.: Filbey, Filbee, Philb(e)y. In the summer of ig8i the village of Filby in Norfolk was the scene of a gathering of more than 100 people from all over the world who bear this surname and claim descent from a Norman, Richard de Filby.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Filby is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, ‘person from Filby’, Norfolk, meaning ‘Fill’s farmstead’
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Filbyb. 1555GBEnglish Roman Catholic priest and martyr
- David Filbyb. 1810DEGerman politician
- P. William Filbyb. 1911USPercy W Filby; b. Dec. 10, 1911; d. Nov 2, 2002; SSN Issued Maryland
- Eric Filbyb. 1917English table tennis and lawn tennis player
- Ian Filbyb. 1954GBEnglish footballer (born 1954)
- Graham Filbyb. 1970ZASouth African darts player
- Sarah Filbyb. 1998CACanadian fencer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 506 | #42,790 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 475 | #48,050 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 444 | #45,403 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #328,607 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #162,320 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Filby come from?
- called from the ON personal name Fill (of uncertain ori¬ gin) + ON byr farm, settlement. Vars.: Filbey, Filbee, Philb(e)y. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Filby?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɪɫbi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Filby mean?
- Recorded meaning: called from the ON personal name Fill (of uncertain ori¬ gin) + ON byr farm, settlement.
- In which country does Filby have the most bearers?
- Filby is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Filby”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.