Quarmby

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Wharmby

Etymology

From Old Norse kvern (“millstone; quern, handmill”) + býr (“farmstead”).

Proper noun

Quarmby (countable and uncountable, plural Quarmbys)

1. A suburb of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1116).
2. A habitational surname from Old Norse.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Quarmby is the 7202^nd most common surname in England, belonging to 913 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Quarmby”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.