Ogilby Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Your Ogilby ancestor may well appear as Ogilvy in earlier records.

What is the meaning of Ogilby?

The name is generally explained as “High plain”.

Is Ogilby the same name as Ogilvy?

Spelled with “b” instead of “v”, Ogilby shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Does every Ogilby family have a crest?

Arms linked to Ogilvy and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Want more than a summary? See the Ogilby family name pack.