The ancient Viking and Anglo-Saxon surname Bibby came from an ancient name which is now a Yorkshire and Lancashire surname. Prior to the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Bibby family name include Bibby, Bibbee, Bibee, Bibbie and others, they have been settled since ancient times and well before the Norman Conquest of England by Duke William in 1066 A.D.
The name Bibby has Viking origins in that the ending of the word (-by) is the Scandinavian suffix for the word 'Village' or 'Town'. For example towns such as Grimsby, Whitby and Formby were all former Viking settlements under the Danelaw, the period when the Vikings ruled Northern England. Recent DNA tests by the University of Nottingham found that over 50% of males in the Lancashire area carry genes that are of Norse Viking Descent.
