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Ibbet Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Ilbert,' a somewhat rare personal name found in the lath and 13th centuries. It managed, however, to secure surnominal honours, and thus lives on in our directories, though I fear it is obsolete as a fontal name.

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Ibbet Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England51:4,875,074116,529

Ibbet Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Ilbert,' a somewhat rare personal name found in the lath and 13th centuries. It managed, however, to secure surnominal honours, and thus lives on in our directories, though I fear it is obsolete as a fontal name.

Ilbert le Moneyer, 5 Henry II, Pipe Rolls.

Ilbert le Cementer. Fine Rolls of Richard I.

Ilbert de Hereford. Documents Illustrative of English History.

Robert Ilberd, Oxfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

John Hilberd, Somerset, 1 Edward III: Kirby's Quest.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

= Ibb (q.v.) + the French diminutive suff. -et.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

Though this baptismal appellation rarely appears as a surname in its proper form, it has given rise to the following :-Ibbet, Ibbitt, Iberson, Ibbetson, Ibbotson, Ibbs, Ibison, Ibson, &c.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

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Ibby6715/
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Eibbitt678/
Ibbé671/
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