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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish, English, and Irish : apparently a habitational name from an English or Scottish place named with Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’, possibly Cleasby or one of the three places in Lincolnshire named Claxby, named with the Old Norse personal name Klakkr (see Clack).

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