Wetherby Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Some records give Weatherby; others give Wetherby. Both point to the same English family name. The family name meaning is “Wether farm”, the same as for Weatherby.

• The same family of names includes Weathersby and Weatherbee.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Wetherby with 791 bearers, at rank 29,740. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames.
• Before spelling was fixed, Weatherby was also written Wetherby.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Weatherby and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Wetherby surname pack.