Ranby
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Old Norse personal name Randi + býr (“village, settlement”).[1]
Proper noun
[edit]Ranby (countable and uncountable, plural Ranbys)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A village and civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2278).
- A village in Babworth civil parish, Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6580).
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old Norse.
Statistics
[edit]- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Ranby is the 20991st most common surname in England, belonging to 211 individuals.
References
[edit]- ^ "Key to English Place Names". Key to English Place Names- Worth Kent. University of Nottingham.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ranby”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- en:Villages in Lincolnshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of Lincolnshire, England
- en:Places in Lincolnshire, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Villages in Nottinghamshire, England
- en:Places in Nottinghamshire, England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old Norse