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Digby
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Origin and Meaning
English name
Transferred use of the surname, originally a place name in Lincolnshire:
Combination of Old Norse díki = 'ditch' and býr = 'settlement' [1]
Related Names
| Digby | ♂ |  
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Grammar
| - Finnish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Digby |
| Genitive: | Digbyn |
| Partitive: | Digbyä |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Digby |
| Genitive: | Digbys |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 12 people were named Digby (percentage of first or only given name: 25 %) [4]
Statistics
No recent statistics trend found in databases for Digby.
References
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)