Tracing the Corbet Family Name

Genealogists group Corbet with Corbett. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Little raven”.

Spelling and variants

Without the “t” of Corbett, Corbet is a simpler written form of the same name. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Corbitt.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Corbet with 631 bearers, at rank 35,622. 2,452 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Corbet name at birth.

Corbet coat of arms

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