Dolphenby
Early-attested site in the Parish of Edenhall
Historical Forms
- Dolphinerbi 1202,1203,1204 P
- Dolfineby c.1250 HolmC
- Dolfinby 1278 Ass 1285 For
- Dolphineby 1279 Ass
- Dolfanbi 1285 Ipm 1337 Norfolk
- Dolphanby 1352,1375 FF
- Dolfanby 1362 Pat 1540 AOMB
- Doffenbye 1571 FF
- Doughenby 1774 Donald
- Dolfin 1163 P
- Dolfyn 1246 FF
Etymology
'Dolfin 's bȳ.' The personal name is well recorded in the county in the 12th and 13th centuries, e.g. Ailward filius Dolfin (1163 P), Orme son of Dolfyn (1246 FF), and occurs as tolfihn in the 11th- or 12th- century runic inscription in Carlisle Cathedral, which may refer to the Dolfin who ruled there in 1092. Dolfin is one of a number of personal names, widely current in Scandinavian England, which are rarely found in the Scandinavian countries themselves. The one recorded bearer of this name in Old Norse sources is a 13th- century bishop in the Orkneys whose name appears as Dolgfinnr , Dolfinn , or Latinised, as Dolphinus .