Wetherby

English

Alternative forms

• Weatherbee, Weatherby, Weathersby, Wetherbee, Witherbee

Etymology

From Old Norse veðr (“wether (sheep)”) + býr (“farmstead”).

Proper noun

Wetherby (countable and uncountable, plural Wetherbys)

1. A market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4048).
2. A habitational surname from Old Norse.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wetherby is the 29740^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 791 individuals. Wetherby is most common among White (94.69%) individuals.

Further reading

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