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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Hanby near Welton le Marsh, in Lincolnshire, which is named from the Old Norse personal name Hundi + Old Norse býr ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
  • Perhaps an altered spelling of French Hambye, a habitational name from a place in Manche.

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